A GREAT PRESENTATION BY IAN CARROLL AT LAST WEDNESDAY'S AGILE SOCAL. HERE IS THE RECORDING: Agile Ramp-up Strategies for Developers and their Teams (1:06)
DR. SHELLEY WRIGHT SPOKE RECENTLY AT THE ORANGE COUNTY ASTRONOMERS. HERE IS A VIDEO OF HER AT A DIFFERENT VENUE ON THE SAME TOPIC: Pulsed Optical and Near-Infrared SETI Instrumentation (20:40)
STARGAZERS: This Week’s Sky at a Glance, April 26 – May 4
Birthdays:
Sergei Prokofiev(1891 - 1953): Dance of the Knights
Esaias Reusner (1636 - 1679): Passcaglia
Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974): East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
I was once invited to take on a leadership role. It was a volunteer position, and a one year commitment. I would be responsible for serving over a hundred people. Nervous, I asked my mentor if he had any advice. He did not. Instead, he told me that if the job seemed easy then maybe I wasn’t doing it right. That wasn’t what I wanted to hear. I accepted the position. It was challenging, time consuming, and I worried a lot. I also kept in mind what my mentor said, and by the end of the year everything turned out okay. There were no injuries. No one died. Everyone was happy.
QUOTE FOR THE DAY:
"The man from Saturn, in Voltaire's tale, complained that the length of life on that hurried planet, was but fifteen thousand years; and what could one learn or accomplish in that brief span?"
—Will Durant, The Pleasures of Philosophy
