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"We are all balloons, floating in the winds of chance, tethered only by our dreams" -- H.G. Wells ('The Time Machine' 1895)
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Chilled Banana Pudding Overnight Oats
"Banana pudding has been a beloved dessert in the Southern culinary tradition for many years and is often associated with comfort food and home cooking. The concept of adding oats so that they absorb liquid to soften overnight creates a no-cook and make-ahead breakfast for any morning." -- Natasha Haynes MSU Extension Agent
August Sabbatical
We observe academia's summer hiatus until August 19th when we resume our daily 15:00 sessions on the topic of Data Center standards, regulations and codes. The front desk at our State Street Office will remain open but our daily colloquia will be replaced with "Evergreen" content dating back to 1993. See our CALENDAR.
August 14, 2003
The University of Michigan district energy microgrid worked flawlessly before microgrids were cool.
“Has U.S. President Donald Trump gone too far?”
"Changing your mind, after all, is proof that have got one." - Sir Roger Scruton
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
The Imitation Game
May 28, 1936: Alan Turing submitted his paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” that would quietly spark the digital revolution with the design of a machine (Bombe) that significantly shortened World War Two in Europe.
Current Issues and Recent Research
Next: A cluster foxtrot of technical conferences September - November. We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. The 2026 National Electrical Code where sit on CMP-15 overseeing health care facility electrical issues should be released any day now. We have one proposal on the agenda of the International Code Council's Group B Committee Action Hearings in Cleveland in October. Balloting on the next IEEE Gold Book on reliability should begin.
Update Status
We continue sorting through anomalies with Godaddy Tech Support to resolve Standards Michigan requirement for frequent and timely updates across all of our platforms. We got half the problem solved last month when we upgraded to Wordpress 6.8.1 but updating was slow on mobile devices. Now we need another PHP update. Our normal course of business will not be interrupted as far as our daily colloquia is concerned but we cannot predict the outcome on the images which are an essential part of our work.