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It’s All About I/O

What we in the trenches of the computer industry wars have known *forever* is that the measure of a server’s performance is in its I/O (input – output processing speed and agility).  Turns out that may be the case with humans as well.

Now a study of the Journal of Topics in Cognitive Science suggests that older folk may take longer to process information because they have accumulated so much of it, not unlike the computer phenomenon.  Read more in this report.

Restaurant Tactics

I think it is safe to say that we have always been a food-centric household.  Increasingly so, ever since Ivi started regularly cooking from middle school times.  While she is on break between college terms, I have been returning home from work at noon and at day’s end to find that something new has again come out of her oven.   But once in a while we may eat out, and I know that Ivi explores local cuisine when she has a chance when school is in session.  For those times, here are some tips and recommendations that come our way from New York City food critic, Robert Sietsema.

An Invasion

Dropping in on Janet this afternnon, I find a convergence of deer at her doorstep.  Rushed to turn on my headlights (to test the “deer in the headlights” concept), but they only glanced my way for a moment, then leisurely sauntered across the lawn in front of me and eased themselves down the alley.  My total count was nine, maybe more, before they gradually went out of sight.

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