If It Ain’t Broke…
If It Ain’t Broke… Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus If it ain’t broke… The rest of the saying is “Don’t fix it”. The idea being that tinkering with something that works may break it or make it work less effectively than it does […]
Now You See It
Now You See It Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus What do these four images have in common? (Sources at the end) These are all images of people, animals, places that do not exist. This article started me down a typical internet rabbit hole concerning […]
Eye In The Sky
Eye In The Sky Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus Eye in the sky 1982: I am the eye in the sky Looking at you I can read your mind I am the maker of rules Dealing with fools I can cheat you blind […]
Two Meters or Two Kilometers?
Two Meters or Two Kilometers? Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus General Dodonna: Well, the Empire doesn’t consider a small one-man fighter to be any threat, or they’d have a tighter defense. ….. The target area is only two meters wide. It’s a small […]
Spot The Difference
Spot The Difference Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus One way to test your powers of observation is to play the ‘Spot the difference’ game. That is where you have two pictures and you need to find the differences between them. Here is one from […]
Let Me Count The Ways
Let Me Count The Ways Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being […]
Defensible Space for Your Network
Defensible Space For Your Network Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus My sister lives in California and has some issues with asthma. Consequently, even though she is not that close to where most wildfires break out, she is still affected by the ash in the […]
What Do You Know?
What Do You Know? Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus When we are born, we know nothing. We react to our environment and start to learn, even before we leave the womb. Some lessons come with some difficulty: Yes it hurts when we touch the […]
Landmarks
Landmarks Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus When you go on vacation, especially a driving vacation, landmarks can be one of the things you search out. You might go to Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, the Golden Gate Bridge, or maybe even the world’s largest […]
The Password Is…
The Password Is… Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus From 1961 to 1975, Allen Ludden hosted a game show where two celebrity-contestant teams tried to guess words by giving one-word clues. An unseen announcer would tell the viewing audience what the ‘password’ was. It was […]
