Comics
Music: The ABC’s of Dead Russian Leaders
This cartoon reminded me of a song called "The ABC's of dead Russian leaders" ( Andropov! Brezhnev, Chernenko ) — Tom Cavanagh
Comics
Sudo and Checkoff
Sudo is a character on Star Trek who usually controlled the shields and speed as opposed to Ensign Checkbox who controlled weapons, course of the ship and most importantly managed the grocery lists on the ship. Sudo did "turn hard to port" but Checkbox "plotted the course" and ticked off various important navigation milestones in spite of everything in the future being done in kilometers. You might find it very confusing because it also seemed that the helm and navigator stations also had communications capabilities in which Sulu would do some of Uhura's work.
Business
The philosophy of the great faker Ferdinand Waldo Demara
Research Links
"In any organization there is always a lot of loose unused power lying about which can be picked up without alienating anyone. If you want power and want to expand never encroach on anyone else's domain but rather open up a new one." — Fred Demara
"Fred" Demara on You bet your life with Groucho Marx
"The Great Impostor" movie
The movie is not that good.
Bushong United Website – Database
Research Links
- Bushong United
- Mary E. Woods Born 1847
- Zella M. Bushong – In the 1900 Columbiana County, Ohio Census, Zella and her husband andtheir daughter, Greta Whittenberger, and her husband's three children from his previous marriage reside in Unity Township at East Palestine next door to Zella's parents
Media
Sidetracked – By Ronald Jenkees
Sidetracked was used by Ed Bassmaster for "Mumbles in the hood" at the end of the video
Research Links
- Wikipedia: Ronald Jenkees
- Official website
- Jenkees' YouTube channel's channel
- Official SoundCloud Page
- Official Bandcamp Page
Don't you go smokin that Jenkees
Communication
Blackberry Secusmart SIM Card
The Secusmart SIM card runs in Blackberry phones to provide encryption. Blackberry appears to have bought the company.
Research Links
Cadence
Varying Parameters during a Cadence Transient Analysis – Dynamic Parameters and Feeding Final Conditions into Initial Conditions
Research Links
- Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator Reference – Dynamic Parameters during Transient Analysis See page 301. This only allows 1 parameter to be varied per run. See first image below.
- Virtuoso ADE L User Guide
Click on the option button to get to the windows where you specify the file to read the circuit initial conditions.
The state file tab has the spectre.fc file specified which is the file that stores the final conditions after a simulation.
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Computing
Facial Recognition and Retouching Software
I was impressed by the Youcam Makeup software. It allows you to fudge with photos. I think it was primarily intended for women to retouch selfies. I am sure you like to imagine women retouching their selfies but it is even more fun to alter the photos of your straight male friends who might feel a little less than flamboyant.
Dave His altered ego Elton Jhones
I was really hoping I could tranify the doggy too but that was a no go. Perhaps there are manual settings. This was done on an Android phone.
Research Links
- Youcam Makeup Makeover appears to be a free app on Android and pay software on desktop. Not sure of their business model on the free app. Could be doing things you don't like inside your phone.
- OpenBR Open biometric recognition
- Face detection software