archive for the “at home” category
I can hardly believe that three years ago I was moving into this condo on Penang Island.
I read today of Mick Jagger playing & singing in the East Room, then I made a quick mockup of a magazine cover for a university course.
At home I saw the movie 12 Monkeys, starring Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, and Madeline Stowe, all good actors. Christopher Plummer played a supporting role. A very good movie, by Terry Gilliam.
However, I wonder why Christopher Plummer’s character, a very wealthy Nobel-Prize winning virologist residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, spoke with a southern-U.S. accent.
I got a copy of Parallels 7 for Mac cheaply, so I thought that I’d install it (easy; it’s a Mac application)
then ‘contaminate’ my Apple Macintosh computer by installing Microsoft Windows 7 (free-of-charge through F.S.U.)
so that I could install, then use for my F.S.U. Project Management course,
Microsoft Office Project 2010 and Microsoft Office Visio 2007 (provided by F.S.U.).
When using Parallels to install Windows on a hard drive, I immediately found a problem (sigh….).
I Google-searched for help/advice, using the error message that Windows had shown to me: “The unattended answer file contains an invalid product key. Either remove the…”
Among the search results that Google provided were questions and answers on Parallel’s support forum, including:
Error message about unattended file when upgrading Virtual Machine to Windows 7
Article ID: 6955
Last Review: Nov, 18 2011 »→
On a weekend without any race spectating in person or on television, home alone doing homework, I’m eager to go to the 12 Hours of Sebring about a month from now.
I never expected to install Windows on my iMac or MacBook Pro. Oh, my gosh. What is the world coming to?
The Florida State University is forcing me to obtain and to learn to use Microsoft Office Project and Microsoft Office Visio (drawing flowcharts and diagrams) for COM 5450 Project Management course.
Too bad that The Florida State University, The College of Communication and Information, or the Project management instructor didn’t advise me before registering for the course, or between registering for the course and the start of the course, or on the first day of the course, or on the second day of the course that I would need to do this.
All I knew was that I needed three books. I had bought them and dutifully read two in their entirety before the semester began.
I hadn’t known that I must obtain these applications and obtain a windoze pee-cee or somehow install Windows on a Mac so that I could run windoze applications. Surprise! »→
I went to church, I bought ‘back to school’ clothes and shoes, I ate lunch, I saw my nephews on Skype, and I’ve been reading, on the Internet, news of the nation and the world while I eagerly await the start of the IndyCar race in Loudon, New Hampshire on ABC television. I hope to see Oriol Servia, James Hinchcliffe, and Tony Kanaan on the podium after the race.
Today we had bright sunlight, clear skies, F-22s and a C-130 flying over my neighborhood, air temps in the 60s, … beautiful weather for jogging or kayaking.
I backed my Jetta out of the garage, cleaned its interior, reorganized the stuff in it, then washed the car, applied Armor All and Rain-X. Then I drove a beautifully-clean machine into my garage, and felt quite content.
Indoors I carried upstairs a new bedside table, vacuumed carpet, dusted, tried to steam wrinkled out of new curtains, vacuumed carpet upstairs, washed huge glass windows & sliding doors, washed the kitchen floor…
I forgot to phone the local VW dealer to ask for an appointment for a car checkup. Yesterday my car reached 10,000 miles, so I want to have it serviced (free of charge) this week before I resume studies in F.S.U. next week.
I just watched an en enjoyable movie, Green Zone, set in Iraq in 2003. I recommend it. »→
another college math quiz item:
A sample of 575 grams of radioactive lead 210 decays to polonium according to the formula defined by
A = 575e-0.038t.
Using this model, the amount of the sample remaining after 16 years is ________ grams.
Round your answer to the nearest whole gram.
I guess that I’m supposed to assume that t is 16…
I’m in a condo on a narrow beach of the bay that’s north of Tyndall Air Force Base. It’s about half a mile from the north end of the northernmost runways. Often F-4s, F-15s, F-16s, F-22s, and/or A-10s fly off the runways northward or southward for training sorties or to travel to- or from other bases. Many days aircrews will practice touch-and-gos repeatedly, and they bank over the condo, the beach, or the bay beyond my back porch. »→
