Victor Rozek
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As I See It: Predictions and Poetry
December 18, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIt’s that time of the year when pundits predict the coming sunrise and other longshots. Let’s face it though, whether the guesswork is educated or not, it’s still guesswork; and if you’re in the prediction business, it’s best to have a short memory. Or hope that your readers do. Unlike picking stocks, however, which dart-throwing monkeys do as well as stock brokers, IT offers even the most obtuse prognosticator the opportunity not just to get lucky, but to get it right. So here goes. Drum roll please. . . . I predict computer components will become smaller and faster and
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As I See It: Predictions and Poetry
December 18, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIt’s that time of the year when pundits predict the coming sunrise and other longshots. Let’s face it though, whether the guesswork is educated or not, it’s still guesswork; and if you’re in the prediction business, it’s best to have a short memory. Or hope that your readers do. Unlike picking stocks, however, which dart-throwing monkeys do as well as stock brokers, IT offers even the most obtuse prognosticator the opportunity not just to get lucky, but to get it right. So here goes. Drum roll please. . . . I predict computer components will become smaller and faster and
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As I See It: Predictions and Poetry
December 18, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIt’s that time of the year when pundits predict the coming sunrise and other longshots. Let’s face it though, whether the guesswork is educated or not, it’s still guesswork; and if you’re in the prediction business, it’s best to have a short memory. Or hope that your readers do. Unlike picking stocks, however, which dart-throwing monkeys do as well as stock brokers, IT offers even the most obtuse prognosticator the opportunity not just to get lucky, but to get it right. So here goes. Drum roll please. . . . I predict computer components will become smaller and faster and
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As I See It: Sweating the Little Stuff
December 11, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreMeteorologist Edward Lorenz was in a hurry. The year was 1961 and he was running weather simulations. Lorenz plugged equations into his computer and waited. And waited. He was working on a Royal (as in typewriter) McBee LGP30, a 740-pound “portable” desk system, and the going was slow. Today, of course, computers crunch numbers with the efficiency of an elephant stomping on a peanut, but in the 1960s, computers crunched numbers with all the vigor of a squirrel gnawing on a coconut. So when he decided to run one last simulation, he took the numeric results from the middle of
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As I See It: Sweating the Little Stuff
December 11, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreMeteorologist Edward Lorenz was in a hurry. The year was 1961 and he was running weather simulations. Lorenz plugged equations into his computer and waited. And waited. He was working on a Royal (as in typewriter) McBee LGP30, a 740-pound “portable” desk system, and the going was slow. Today, of course, computers crunch numbers with the efficiency of an elephant stomping on a peanut, but in the 1960s, computers crunched numbers with all the vigor of a squirrel gnawing on a coconut. So when he decided to run one last simulation, he took the numeric results from the middle of
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As I See It: Sweating the Little Stuff
December 11, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreMeteorologist Edward Lorenz was in a hurry. The year was 1961 and he was running weather simulations. Lorenz plugged equations into his computer and waited. And waited. He was working on a Royal (as in typewriter) McBee LGP30, a 740-pound “portable” desk system, and the going was slow. Today, of course, computers crunch numbers with the efficiency of an elephant stomping on a peanut, but in the 1960s, computers crunched numbers with all the vigor of a squirrel gnawing on a coconut. So when he decided to run one last simulation, he took the numeric results from the middle of
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As I See It: The Other “Tude”
November 27, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIt’s a wonder that the Thanksgiving holiday even exists. Consider that during their first years on the continent, the Pilgrims dug seven times as many graves as they built huts, yet still found reason to set aside a day of gratitude. Perched on the edge of an alien and seemingly hostile continent, knowing hunger, fear, and disease, they nonetheless saw value in expressing thanks. It was an extraordinary affirmation that deep within every manure pile lies a pony; or perhaps (from the natives’ point of view) that no pile is so high that it cannot get higher.
I, on the
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As I See It: The Other “Tude”
November 27, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIt’s a wonder that the Thanksgiving holiday even exists. Consider that during their first years on the continent, the Pilgrims dug seven times as many graves as they built huts, yet still found reason to set aside a day of gratitude. Perched on the edge of an alien and seemingly hostile continent, knowing hunger, fear, and disease, they nonetheless saw value in expressing thanks. It was an extraordinary affirmation that deep within every manure pile lies a pony; or perhaps (from the natives’ point of view) that no pile is so high that it cannot get higher.
I, on the
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As I See It: The Other “Tude”
November 27, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read moreIt’s a wonder that the Thanksgiving holiday even exists. Consider that during their first years on the continent, the Pilgrims dug seven times as many graves as they built huts, yet still found reason to set aside a day of gratitude. Perched on the edge of an alien and seemingly hostile continent, knowing hunger, fear, and disease, they nonetheless saw value in expressing thanks. It was an extraordinary affirmation that deep within every manure pile lies a pony; or perhaps (from the natives’ point of view) that no pile is so high that it cannot get higher.
I, on the
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As I See It: The Workplace Politician
November 13, 2006 Victor Rozek
… Read morePolitics is a great tree burdened with rotting fruit, and there’s nothing like a recent election to remind us of why it can be so distasteful. If political ads are any measure of gravitas, politics is full of brash sound and feigned fury signifying rudeness. Although politics is associated primarily with governance, the term is also used in the workplace, where it describes the backroom and boardroom decisions that impact employees–often adversely–but have little or nothing to do with the actual running of the business.
To be sure, the term “politics” is also used more loosely to describe a range