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SNES DS9

Posted on November 22, 2016November 4, 2017 by Joe Del Rocco

Apparently, DS9 on the SNES was a thing 😛

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International Week 2016

Posted on November 13, 2016July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

For International Week this year, my family and I hosted a soirée for my South East Asian students. Anyone was welcome, but the intention was to connect these young people to one another and strengthen relations between China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. I attended many of these soirées as an exchange student in Japan. And…

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Jack-o’-lanterns 2016

Posted on November 1, 2016December 2, 2016 by Joe Del Rocco

Here are the jack-o’-lanterns we carved this Halloween 2016 – Jack Skellington, a Minion, smiley face, 5-eyed monster, and the Chinese hansi for ghost.

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Ada Lovelace Day

Posted on October 11, 2016August 1, 2017 by Joe Del Rocco

Various resources to help you appreciate Ada, Countess of Lovelace as certainly one of the first, if not the very first, documented programmer for a general purpose computing machine. Numbers of Bernoulli program intended for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine: http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/figures/menat6_1-5k.png http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html (Note that Ada’s “Notes” are much longer than the original translation itself) (I thank…

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Snail Mail at Warp Speed

Posted on October 11, 2016October 11, 2016 by Joe Del Rocco

If you have to send snail-mail, send it at warp speed! Star Trek stamps available at your local Federal Post Office. https://www.usps.com/stamps/star-trek.htm

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Cacti Council @ OrlandoiX

Posted on October 4, 2016October 5, 2016 by Joe Del Rocco

Cacti Council will be @ OrlandoiX16 October 14th-16th. I will see you there! We will be explaining what we do and how you can help kids learning computer science and programming. Apparently there will be many other Full Sailers attending as well. This list is chock full of graduates and current and former instructors: http://www.orlandoix.com/speakers…

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Star Trek Coffee Mug

50 Years of Voyages

Posted on September 8, 2016September 8, 2016 by Joe Del Rocco

In commemoration… http://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/492880770/much-more-than-a-five-year-mission-star-trek-turns-50

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Cacti Council (literally)

Cacti Council

Posted on September 6, 2016July 31, 2017 by Joe Del Rocco

A literal cacti council to celebrate our Cacti Council non-profit, which promotes creative and critical thinking concepts in education, especially computer science and its related disciplines. If you’d like to help out and/or be involved, let us know here.

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Dragon Fruit Flowers

Posted on August 23, 2016November 1, 2016 by Joe Del Rocco

“Dragon fruit” (Pitahaya), are sweet, crunchy fruits about the size of a fist. On the outside, they look like oval balls of fire (thick red skin) decaled with green flames (leaves). On the inside, the majority of the fruit is either white or purple or yellow, and is peppered with what looks like black sesame….

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Idiocracy: Election 2016

Posted on July 20, 2016July 19, 2021 by Joe Del Rocco

I think we’re almost there 🙁  I saw this on someone’s fence today…

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