Hi folks, I’m experimenting with setting up my own internet broadcast radio. I’ll be adding more content over time, but for now there are several categories you can enjoy. They are: You can point your browser or any media player that supports opening an internet playlist to: https://zeno.fm/radio/flyingsalmon/ Also, there are downloadable apps for Android […]
Blog
Monet’s still painting brought alive
Here I’m sharing my first little experimentation with animating a still image. Not the cheesy, cartoony added animation layers on top of the image like TikTok or most other apps feature these days, but rather using the intrinsic pixels of the original image and manually specifying which pixels would move, how fast, how far, where, […]
Metaphysics, Harmony, Spirituality with Python
For many years, different sound frequencies have been believed and proven to have various effects on humans…in physical and mental aspects. From self-healing to spirituality; to vision and enlightenment, sound has been used (and continues to be) to aid meditation and therapy. Whether or not you believe in its benefits is beside the point of […]
Complementary post to: Pop Quiz [And Solutions With Low Code!]
This post is a continuation of or complementary post to about using Excel and SQL for pop-quizes. Please read that first to get proper context…otherwise, this wouldn’t make much sense. As discussed in the post linked above, the SQL queries can be saved from Microsoft Query Editor to an external file. It’s really convenient because […]
Pop Quiz [and Solutions with Low Code!]
Every now and then I see some simple quizzes pop-up on Facebook such as: “Name a state without letter A in it.” The letter can be another, they just switch it around from time to time. This particular post is inspired by such posts. Sure we can go through all the states in our heads […]
Understanding Trends: Real-world example
Trend analysis is a pivotal part of business analytics, project planning, marketing, and virtually all aspects of strategic planning and understanding of patterns/behavior. In this post, I present a straight-forward but very practical use of some analytics and walk you through: 1) Data collection 2) Data cleanup and shaping 3) Creating trends and understanding the […]
Boom Beach: Break from seriousness
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy! Every now and then I take a break from posting about analytics, programming, microelectronics, and STEM “stuff” to something fun! Because we all need it! Your brain needs it! Boom Beach is one of the rarest mobile games that I actually continued to play for […]
Carbon footprint estimation made easy
Indeed, “Climate change” has been the hot topic for the last couple of weeks. It even surpassed the hubbub around the pandemic the world is experiencing for the past 2 years and counting! Thanks to COP26…the gathering of the “relevant” world leaders to discuss top, pressing issues of the world, the list of which contains […]
Google honors the father of fiber optics
I found this out “accidentally” today (November 4th) while searching something on the Web, from Google.com landing page. This is what it looked like: As I looked at the binary numbers in their cartoony animation, I see they are:010010110100000101001111 which then translated to text, decimal, and hex are as follows: ASCII Decimal Hex 01001011 K […]
Webfonts…why and how
Why do we even need to deal with webfonts and its various formats? I have enough pretty, cool fonts! The issue isn’t about how many awesome fonts you used when you developed your perfect web page but whether all your users have the same fonts. In all likelihood, they don’t (unless the fonts are ubiquitous)! […]