by Jim Alstott | Aug 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Do you regularly think about the idea of courage? If Google Trends is any indicator, not many people do. Unless you are a rock climber, maybe. So what is courage? From ancient times, civilizations have described what constitutes a good person. The Greeks believed that...
by Jim Alstott | Jun 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
For Spring Break my family went to Los Angeles to visit our son, and one afternoon we went to Manhattan Beach to watch the sunset. While we were enjoying the view of a calm ocean, two whales decided to give us a show. For several minutes they kept jumping out of the...
by Jim Alstott | May 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
While vacationing in Los Angeles, we took the Warner Brothers Studio tour. It was very fascinating to learn the inside scoop on how some of our favorite movies and TV shows are made. We even walked through two “Live” sets that were being used for current shows. While...
by Jim Alstott | May 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
While working in another country, I learned that many routine documents require official company stamps before they are considered valid. Though my department used such a stamp almost every day, we always had to borrow one. So I asked my boss, a very senior person in...
by Jim Alstott | Mar 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
It was a grey and dismal morning around 8am when I was approaching the transition from I-69 to I-465 South. The sun had just cleared the eastern horizon and was streaming light under the cloud cover. And then it happened: a rainbow appeared right in front of me, just...
by Jim Alstott | Mar 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
What is Signal-to-Noise Ratio? If you’ve ever tried to fine tune the reception of an AM/FM ratio so you could better hear the station amidst the static, you have an understanding of what signal-to-noise ratio is. In communication, the signal is the information you...
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