Blog Entries from Vince Higgins

  1. Retirement. Revenge of the nerd.

    I am retired, but my Linked in account still sends me e-mail notices. Mostly it is from some online recruiting bot, that throws up numbers, matches me to a job, then sends me an e-mail link to a recruiter, this time in Austin TX. She has a perfect opportunity for me, close by in Newark CA. I know about where it is, so I sent the following. >No thanks. Look at a map. Just because it is in California does not make it close.< Then I pulled out my favorite digital globe, took some...
  2. Fact, or Fiction?

    I cannot comment on the current political situation without it sounding like a dystopian novel. Everyday is filled with such writing prompts coming from the talking heads, and from the White House. I wrote a story over the summer about Civil War II. It involved the secession of the West Coast, and an attempt to nuke San Francisco and Portland leading to a coup that restores some normalcy, but cannot save the union from dissolution. In one alternate time line the president is poisoned by...
  3. Confessions of an Aging Nerd

    People who know my history as a model aviation aficionado are often surprised to find that I do not own one of those quad copter drones. They would not be if they had seen it from my eyes. When I started flying model planes, radio controls were very simple by today's standards, and very expensive. A controller with the capabilities of a fifty dollar department store toy would run you a cool four hundred bucks in 1970 dollars. You would have to install that controller in a model you built...
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