Author: Steven Guccione

Ramen!

Steven Guccione

Looking for lunch and saw some leftover brisket in the fridge.  And then there is my pickled cabbage and cauliflower (which my Korean colleague informs me won’t pass muster as real kim chee). Then I realized I had ramen for lunch yesterday at Tatsuya.  Hey,  nothing wrong with two days in a row.

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Blue Wave

Steven Guccione

After the recent election I wasn’t sure how significant the margin of victory was.  I heard a few declarations that the “Blue Wave” failed to materialize.  Not sure how this could have gone better for the Democrats, unless Beto won, too.  Of course, why the representation is so skewed really needs to be addressed.  We fought a revolution and many wars against “Minority Rule”.  From NBC News:

Democrats won House popular vote by largest midterm margin since Watergate

Nationally, Democrats have 53.1 percent of all votes counted while Republicans took 45.2 percent.

NUC NUC NUC

Steven Guccione

Realized my wife’s old Shuttle PC has a 10 year old processor.  Was time to upgrade.  Starting looking at mini-ATX and Micro-ATX and other small form factors.  Then I ran across the Intel NUC.  Bought some DRAM (laptop variety) and slapped the old SSD in and Windows 10 booted.  We will see how it goes, but so far, so good.

Roy Charles MacPherson

Steven Guccione

Was talking to my Mom last night.  Our conversation drifted to her uncle who had been killed in WW II.  We weren’t really that close to her side of the family, so I don’t think I ever knew much about him.  His name was Roy Charles MacPherson and was her father’s brother.  He was in the Merchant Marines in WW II on a ship named the Dorchester.  It was torpedoed of Greenland on Feb 3, 1943 and 675 of the over 900 men on board died, mostly of hypothermia in the North Sea.

Reading up on all of this I came across one interesting bit.  The American writer Jack Kerouac was on the Dorchester and left just before the last voyage. I wonder he he and Roy ever met.

The American writer Jack Kerouac served on Dorchester, where he befriended an African-American cook named “Old Glory,” who died when the ship sank after the torpedo attack. Kerouac would have also been on the ship during the attack, but for a telegram he received from coach Lou Little, asking him to return to Columbia University to play football.[23]