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Featured Music: October 2016 In this playlist I have gone way back to my first albums “Lust love and other distractions” for the track Cheryl’s song released back in 2001 in celebrating my wife and long time friend’s birthday and our anniversary. Happy birthday and happy anniversary my lady. Also on this playlistEXCERPT
Book review: The Last Mile, David Baldacci. This review is of the amazing book The Last Mile by David Baldacci. The Last Mile is the second in what I hope will be a long series around this character Amos Decker. In this follow-up to Memory Man, Decker has joined the FBI along with hisEXCERPT
50th Anniversary of Star Trek I can’t believe that its been 50 years. Live long and prosper indeed. I have been a huge fan of Star Trek from the very first series. Throughout it all I am still a fan of Gene Roddenberry vision. This article on the L.A Time website goesEXCERPT
Book review: Memory Man In this book review I’m covering Memory Man by another of my favorite writers David Baldacci. The first book of series in the Amos Decker series. Decker once a big, towering athlete had his life changed forever twice. On his debut in the NFL, a violent helmet-to-helmet collisionEXCERPT
In 1969 mankind landed on the moon. This was just eight years after President John F. Kennedy’s amazing 1961 speech. So how did we do it? How did we do it without modern day computers do that math? What led up to that historic first trip into space let alone the lunar landing of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969? I’m old enough, albeit I was a child, to remember watching the landing on the moon and being amazed.
I’ve often wondered how this was done, what was the back story. Below is a link to that story of what was called back then Human computers. Specifically the two links below are stories about the Black Female NASA human computer (mathematician) Katherine Johnson.
The movie Hidden Figures is about her and the others that not only got us into space but landed us on the moon. I can’t wait fir this movie.
Check back for more on NASA’s next trip to the moon and why it’s taken us so long?
Book review: Cross Justice I’ve gone back to one of my all time favorite writers Mr. James Patterson and his amazing character Alex Cross in the book, Cross Justice. For those of you who have never read an Alex Cross novel, all I can say to you is “what are youEXCERPT
