Author Archives: rgdudley

NYSEG Nonsense

Posted on 5 February 2024 by rgdudley

My Electricity Bill My electricity bill is very strange. It has several extra charges that I don’t really understand. Also, because I have two electric cars, I have opted for a system that bills separately for ‘on-peak’ and ‘off-peak’ charges. … Continue reading →

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Who Am I…. What? Are You Sure?

Posted on 24 March 2023 by rgdudley

Ancestor Assumptions Growing up we learned a bit about where our family originated. On my mother’s side, my great grandparents immigrated to the USA around 1880 — one set (Ehrsam & Oswald-Shmidt) from Switzerland, and one set (Willvonseder & Stein) … Continue reading →

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The Zeroth Law

Posted on 9 February 2023 by rgdudley

Introduction Recently I read an interesting paper in System Dynamics Review (Malczynski and Lane, 2022) regarding an exchange between Isaac Asimov and Jay W. Forrester. Asimov, the well-known scientist and science fiction writer, needs no introduction. Forrester was, among other … Continue reading →

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Old Photos, Lightroom, and Photoshop

Posted on 20 April 2022 by rgdudley

In the recent past I spent quite a bit of time scanning old photos, much of them from negatives and slides plus, of course, since about 2004 I have been using digital cameras which vastly increased the number of pictures … Continue reading →

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More About Taking Notes on the iPad

Posted on 16 April 2022 by rgdudley

Some time ago, several years, I wrote a note about taking notes on the iPad which at that time, 2012, was not a very good experience.   I was looking for an app that worked well for handwriting notes with a … Continue reading →

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Do Southerners Really Like Loudmouth New Yorkers?

Posted on 14 September 2016 by rgdudley

Quite a few years ago I was known, I believe, as a loudmouth New Yorker.  True, I had grown up in the suburbs of New York City.   However I had lived for six years in upstate New York followed by … Continue reading →

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Best Apps for Taking Notes on the iPad

Posted on 21 January 2012 by rgdudley

I have been reviewing some note taking apps for the iPad. I wanted to be able to use these apps, or at least one of them, to take notes in seminars and meetings without undue messing around. I wasn’t sure … Continue reading →

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Holy Macro

Posted on 18 June 2011 by rgdudley

This little Syrphid Fly (probably Toxomerus geminatus) on a Black-eyed Susan (Rudbekia) petal is one of my favorite macro photos – so far. I’m not really sure why I like taking macro pictures so much. But it probably has something … Continue reading →

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Not Messing with WordPress

Posted on 18 June 2011 by rgdudley

As a follow-up to my previous post… of course if I use LiveWriter (or some such blogging tool) on my computer and then post to the blog I can avoid dealing with the WordPress editors at all!  Or at least … Continue reading →

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Messing with WordPress

Posted on 18 June 2011 by rgdudley

I’m not a geek– really I’m not! And this messing with WordPress to get these blogs up and running is certainly not very straightforward. I had a blog on another site – the Google site: blogger. And that works very … Continue reading →

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