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Monthly Archives: August 2016
A Simple Discrete-Event Simulation: Part 3
Here is an entity object that knows how to be created and activated from external calls. It updates itself and puts itself back into the future events queue is appropriate. This is in keeping with my original concept of how … Continue reading
A Simple Discrete-Event Simulation: Part 2
Today I’ve added the ability to retrieve the first item from the future events queue, which is the next item to process and that with the lowest activation time. In this case I just update the item’s time when it’s … Continue reading
A Simple Discrete-Event Simulation: Part 1
Some months ago I discussed some internal features of a discrete-event simulation. My next series of exercises and ruminations will proceed toward building one in JavaScript, using the simple pseudo-construct I outlined in the linked post. I’ll start with the … Continue reading
My Favorite Player in the NFL Hall of Fame
My first football hero, Larry Brown, Jr., is still my favorite player. He didn’t stay healthy enough to actually be elected to the NFL Hall of Fame, but if they’d had the medical technology they do now he might have … Continue reading
A New Record! For This Trip, Anyway.
Today I didn’t have anything to do but drive, drive, and drive some more. I took it easy, sat back, drove a bit slower, listened to some XM radio and audio books, and let the miles roll by–over 800 of … Continue reading
And Now For Something Completely Less Serious!
Wednesday saw the turn home really pick up steam, but it wasn’t without frivolity. I hit the UFO Museum in Roswell, NM first thing in the morning. The best thing I saw there was patrons wearing tinfoil hats, which you … Continue reading
Biosphere 2 and a Small Bonus!
I had pre-positioned in Tucson where, after a brief deluge that was almost the only rain I’d seen, I finally got to visit Biosphere 2, which I’d wanted to see since it was built. I’d been in the area a … Continue reading
Arcosanti, my old friend…
I’ve come to talk with you again… From the Grand Canyon I made it down to one of my favorite places ever, Arcosanti, in time to catch the last tour of the day. I’d made previous pilgrimages here in 1991 … Continue reading
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Grand Canyon
Geology is still interesting. Big time. đŸ™‚
Oakland/Berkeley/San Francisco
Today I stopped in to Berkeley and Oakland to see family. I didn’t actually see the Bay on this trip except a glimpse as I was coming over the hill towards upper Berkeley. I always love visiting, swing dancing, hitting … Continue reading