Chris Denbow
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Mobile Denbow
Feb 8th
NASA’s Budget Skyrocketing?
Feb 5th
The general public perception of NASA is that it’s an inefficient, unnecessary drain on the US budget. How bad a drain? From The Space Review:
In a just-completed study, we asked respondents what percentage of the national budget is allocated to NASA … NASA’s allocation, on average, was estimated to be approximately 24% of the national budget (the NASA allocation in 2007 was approximately 0.58% of the budget.)
Recently a budget was submitted to cut funding for NASA. This is not good news. There are better ways of cutting government waste.
Image Credit: NASA
Recycle and Replace
Feb 3rd
We need to rethink the way our government and the Department of Defense spend tax payer dollars. Years and billions of dollars are consumed on research and development to wait approval. If your design is selected, you win the huge contract and reap billions. If your design lost out, well, you still receive a hefty sum. See further: the F-22 and Y-23. Recently the Pentagon cut funding for the F-22s already in service and stopped further development. Apparently it is too costly and not needed.
Why not manufacture the designs and machines that have worked previously? An F-16 fighter is still More >
The Pacific
Feb 3rd
I really enjoyed the Band of Brothers series from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. Now they have teamed up again for “The Pacific”. The 10-part series based on books by Robert Leckie and Eugene B. Sledge follows the exploits of three US marines during World War II, and debuts March 14.
URL ABC
Feb 2nd
Go to the address bar in your favorite browser, and type one letter. Start with “a”, end with “z”.
Don’t do a web search. This is just in your address bar.
Here are the first results in my address bar. Revealing, no?
- Alltop.com
- Box.net
- ChrisDenbow.com (who knew?)
- Delicious.com
- Eager Little Mind.com
- Foxnews.com
- Give Me Something To Read
- Hulu
- Instapaper.com
- Jessica Simpson shoes (wth?)
- Katy, TX.
- Linked In
- mojodenbow.com
- Note & Point
- Oceanic Flight 815
- Panera Login (guess where I like to hang out)
- Quicktime
- Read It Later
- Slideshare
- The Sixty One
- Userscripts.org
- Visual Mixtape
- Wordpress
- X Flight
- Yahoo
- Zillow
The Times
Feb 1st
Read not the Times. Read the Eternities.
From the essay Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau, who was complaining about gossip and the trivialities of the daily news long before any of us were born.
Must See TV
Jan 30th
I don’t watch a whole lot of television but when I do, it has to be intelligent and make me think. Nothing fraks with my mind like LOST, which is airing it’s 6th and last season this week. If you haven’t been keeping up and feel a bit lost yourself, Hulu is airing all episodes for free. Time to play catch up. I’ve been watching all seasons and will still have to watch at least the past 4 episodes from last season to prepare for this one.
I was skeptical of the recent Battlestar Galactica series until a co-worker turned More >
You’ve Got Rail
Jan 29th
Images are courtesy of Wired.com
I have been a big fan of high speed rail systems as a means of commuter transportation for years. I am also in favor of making rails as a transportation for shipping products a priority over semi-trucks. I am not a tree hugger but it is obvious that trucks as transportation are annoying, dirty and unsafe. Keep in mind that my own father has been a trucker for years and logged millions of miles without incident. No worries, dad. You will be retired before the high-speed wheels are on the tracks. Every other major country in More >
Denbow’s Info Workflow
Jan 29th
Unless you’ve had your head up your hindquarters for the past ten years you are well aware that the internet is a great resource. Most of us use the net as a way to gather information and share it with others. This process of information distribution has increasingly become more efficient. With web services and software cooperating with each other, the information seeker’s experience has become more enhanced as well.
In the past five years, the RSS (real simple syndication) feeds and clients have become a major way I process my information. Instead of browsing hundreds of websites, I have them coming More >
Don’t Be Anti-Social
Jan 27th
It is time to unplug yourself from Facebook page and Twitter account to go out and actually meet people. Real relationships trump online friends any day.
