Even though Governor Abbott has disparaged renewables as part of the power grid What an irony that the addition of more solar arrays and wind power in oil-dominated Texas has saved the state from brownouts or rolling blackouts so far this summer. …

And what I learned about memory and fear Between college semesters I took a job in about 1979 working the graveyard shift at a Citgo Quick mart. It was a gas station and a really small convenience store a little north of Downtown Shreveport. This was years before Shreveport opened its first casino and there really weren’t many…

A poem — Like grey clouded sequestered sun the eye is shrouded in an urban warehouse. As if ashamed, colors surreal repaint the dinge in ET hues, giving too much sight to the blind. Reds redder than blood of thousands and blues a million sunny days beam from plastic golden arches and flat…

Practice interviewing skills with this tool — Google created a new Artificial Intelligence-based interview tool. The tool can be found here. Below are the 6 career fields with which to practice. Most of the categories are tech-based. Don’t worry. It also includes “General.”

Working with a two million record file — This is a follow-up to the article I wrote awhile back. Python: Using SQLite when Excel’s Limits are Surpassed View the data and create Excel extract with SQLricky-mcbride.medium.com In that article, I wrote about loading a CSV file that is too large to load into Excel. Instead, it was loaded into an SQLite database and queries were run against it to create smaller extracts.

A near miss and other craziness What a day it was! I’m not picking on Southwest Airlines. I love Southwest and I flew that airline many a time in 2015 when I worked in Nashville and flew back and forth almost every other weekend to Dallas. Southwest is a Dallas company and most of the people…

Comfort during Eastertide — In our modern chaotic world, the cup of anxiety can sometimes overflow. Worry and problems slink up on us and stalk us like unsuspecting prey. Life has never been a cake walk for most on this planet. One hundred years ago, the world was just getting over the Spanish flu…