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Fun with Coding 3: Rubic's Cube Challenge

While fiddling with a Rubik's Cube, I began to wonder if all I do is rotate the cube clockwise, then turn the right side clockwise, then repeat, could I get the...

Fun With Coding 2: Dice, Spreadsheets, and Macros

pxfuel.com Here's one for all my D&D pals out there. This programming experiment has to do with rolling your HP when you level. The Introduction What house rule...

Fun With Coding: Can You Unshuffle a Deck of Cards?

A Programming Mythbusters adventure! Image from Wikipedia Ever hear someone say "If you shuffle it more than seven times, you're just putting it back in order"?...

Posts not following from steem

It looks like my posts newer than February-ish did not make it here from Steemit. Unless it is a terrible idea, I think I'll copy my posts over so that the hive...

Internet Woes

I live out in an area where the only internet is over-priced satellite. So to make do, I use my phone as a hotspot. It works surprisingly well actually...until ...

Belated Valentine's Card

I was inspired to make a Valentine's card this year that is a little off color. I hope you enjoy it. The cover. And the inside....

Been away a while

It's been a little while since I've posted anything. I was browsing on partiko just to see where things are and I noticed I haven't posted for over 3 months! So...

My Actifit Report Card: November 10 2019

Today Aedan and I visited Dinosaur Ridge, a site filled with dinosaur tracks, awesome rock formations, and a few fossils. When we arrived, the last shuttle left...

My Actifit Report Card: October 7 2019

We got are shipment of computers in. We had to haul 20 pallets from one side of the hangar to the other where our storage is, open them up, and put them all in ...

Ulog and Actifit Report Card: September 9 2019

It's always good to get out and walk. It's not so good to walk to check for computer equipment that came in on a flight from another city and see it had been le...

Ulog and Actifit Report Card: August 28 2019

Surprise! Didn't really walk around the airport today. Well, I did, but not in the main part of the airport. Primarily at our hangar. Walked up and down our hal...

Ulog and Actifit Report Card: August 27 2019

More walking around the airport. I must like that place... My boss was back from his vacation today, so I made us a breakfast. Then we had a team come out to vi...

Ulog: Cooking with Alan

Hello and welcome to my first episode (I think) of Cooking with Alan where I make things that are a little different in my kitchen. I was gonna make a video, bu...

My Actifit Report Card: August 19 2019

Walked around the airport like I do... Several printers were offline. I bet it was a conspiracy! And several moving walkways were down! Another conspiracy! I wo...

Ulog: Coding Neural Networks with Python part 2: the Convolutional Neural Network

Today I worked on building a Convolutional Neural Network, and let me tell you, it is quite convoluted. Convolutional Neural Network This Convolutional Neural N...

Ulog and Actifit Report Card: August 9 2019

Today we went to Aedan's school to meet his new 4th grade teacher. He was so excited. He missed his friends over the summer and was so happy to see them again. ...

Ulog and Actifit Report Card: August 7 2019

Tackling more issues in the IT world today. More network outage due to port saturation. Not as much walking around the airport today because I was stuck at my d...

Ulog and Actifit Report Card: August 6 2019

Today I ran around the airport as usual and got in my 10k. Afterward I went home a little early because today my town celebrated National Night Out. There was g...

Ulog and Actifit Report Card: July 25 2019

I didn't quite do a much walking today, but I managed to get some in and played a little Wizards Unite while doing so. I fixed a couple printers and kiosks whil...

Ulog and Actifit Report Card: July 24 2019

Today while walking around the airport, I worked on managing things. Actually I started that yesterday when I wrote down issues to be addressed. I addressed som...