Steve Roth
@steve.rothskeller.net
Disaster Preparedness Specialist for Sunnyvale, CA. Retired software architect for Hewlett-Packard. Sing tenor in Schola Cantorum Silicon Valley.
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Knowing how to correlate the data to real life is the key.
June 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Knowing how to correlate the data to real life is the key.
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June 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Sunday afternoon, my chorus (and a couple of others) joined the Redwood Symphony in their performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, to an audience of about 800 people. With close to 300 musicians on stage, it is truly a monumental work.
February 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Sunday afternoon, my chorus (and a couple of others) joined the Redwood Symphony in their performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, to an audience of about 800 people. With close to 300 musicians on stage, it is truly a monumental work.
I spent half the morning driving Sunnyvale's Mobile Emergency Operations Center (MEOC) around town, and practicing maneuvers with it. It's a bit of a beast to drive, and I need to practice with it every few months to stay current.
February 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I spent half the morning driving Sunnyvale's Mobile Emergency Operations Center (MEOC) around town, and practicing maneuvers with it. It's a bit of a beast to drive, and I need to practice with it every few months to stay current.
Now this is a useful — and satisfying — tip.
arstechnica.com/google/2025/...
arstechnica.com/google/2025/...
“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews
The latest trick to stop those annoying AI answers is also the most cathartic.
arstechnica.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Now this is a useful — and satisfying — tip.
arstechnica.com/google/2025/...
arstechnica.com/google/2025/...
Old fart's thought of the day: when was the last time you heard a busy signal?
Voice mail is ubiquitous now. I'd guess if young folks heard a busy signal, they might not even know what it meant.
Voice mail is ubiquitous now. I'd guess if young folks heard a busy signal, they might not even know what it meant.
January 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Old fart's thought of the day: when was the last time you heard a busy signal?
Voice mail is ubiquitous now. I'd guess if young folks heard a busy signal, they might not even know what it meant.
Voice mail is ubiquitous now. I'd guess if young folks heard a busy signal, they might not even know what it meant.
Today's meaningless coincidence: wrapping my Christmas gifts took *precisely* the same amount of time as the Voces8 recording of Handel's Messiah that I played while doing it.
December 24, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Today's meaningless coincidence: wrapping my Christmas gifts took *precisely* the same amount of time as the Voces8 recording of Handel's Messiah that I played while doing it.
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Every fact in this piece is absolutely true in every way and I expect to see these facts in AI summaries of these songs very soon now.
whatever.scalzi.com/2011/12/24/8...
whatever.scalzi.com/2011/12/24/8...
8 Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Your Favorite Holiday Music
Each year we hear them, we sing them, we love them: The holiday songs of our lives. But how much do we really know about the great music of the holidays? Probably not as much as we think. And thus,…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 21, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Every fact in this piece is absolutely true in every way and I expect to see these facts in AI summaries of these songs very soon now.
whatever.scalzi.com/2011/12/24/8...
whatever.scalzi.com/2011/12/24/8...
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An old graph, but new to me, and rather telling.
Source: By Max Roser - Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier. May 26, 2017. Copied from Wikipedia.
Source: By Max Roser - Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier. May 26, 2017. Copied from Wikipedia.
December 6, 2024 at 4:44 AM
An old graph, but new to me, and rather telling.
Source: By Max Roser - Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier. May 26, 2017. Copied from Wikipedia.
Source: By Max Roser - Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier. May 26, 2017. Copied from Wikipedia.
Working radio at the Los Altos Festival of Lights. Always a fun event!
December 2, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Working radio at the Los Altos Festival of Lights. Always a fun event!
Hosting my bridge group tonight. They're all better cooks than I am, but I try to keep up. Serving beef stroganoff tonight.
November 27, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Hosting my bridge group tonight. They're all better cooks than I am, but I try to keep up. Serving beef stroganoff tonight.
Greetings. I've had a BlueSky account as a lurker for many months now, but few if any of my friends were here, so I didn't use it much. Looks like that will be changing now as so many more people are moving here.
November 25, 2024 at 1:13 AM
Greetings. I've had a BlueSky account as a lurker for many months now, but few if any of my friends were here, so I didn't use it much. Looks like that will be changing now as so many more people are moving here.