As I mentioned my previous post, my wife and I went to visit for the first time my son and family after his move from Indiana to Wisconsin. It used to be about 10 hours by car and about two hours by plane. The latter did not include the time from home to the airport, the wait at the airport, picking up luggage in the Indianapolis airport, and driving about an hour to his previous residence. Taking that into account if we fly to Madison, WI it would probably be a wash driving versus flying.
His new place is in a very nice development. The weather was hot and muggy. We walked the dog twice. We have to feed the Fitbit. The guest room is a lot nicer than the one in the previous house. The actual bed was firmer. For some reason or another I was not able to sleep well. Woke up on Sunday morning at 01:37 AM and did not go back to sleep until around 04:30 AM. Continue reading “Find Damaged – Part II”
Last week I had the opportunity to chat with a principal researcher / architect who works for one of the top 10 in the list of the 
Last week read an article that covered the Azure Kinect DK camera. It seems that up to recently you could only get on a list and wait for the hardware and software to become available. It appears that has recently changed and Microsoft is starting to ship the camera.
combination with an AWS account allows you to experiment with Machine Learning. My free AWS account has expired and I am ready to start experimenting with Azure and Microsoft’s new camera. I will check later today if I can purchase the new camera and will start experimenting with it on the Azure cloud. 
It is 11:20 AM CDT and the garage door repair technicians have not shown up yet. They mentioned they were going to be here first thing in the morning. The problem is that the door is jammed and we are not able to drive our vehicles. This will definitely be the last time we use this company. I will post the name of the company in a future blog after the door is fixed. We are planning on calling someone else if the technicians do not show up in the next 40 minutes or so.
It seems that when it rains it pours. A couple days before the 4th of July the garage opener stopped working. We called the garage service company that installed the current unit. The technician showed up and determined that the issue was a cracked controller board. We paid in advanced for the board which had to be ordered. In the meantime the unit was detached so we could open and close the door by hand.
Lately I have been quite busy with work and have not had time to write posts for this blog. Today I woke up shortly after 04:00 AM. Typically I go back to sleep until my alarm goes off, but today I had the desire to get up and so some on-line reading. I found the article 
I have noticed that multiple times in a week I wake up and check my phone for the time and it is 04:47 AM. Given that I live in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, there is some day light at that time. I recall a few years ago when I would get up around 05:00 AM to walk the dogs.