Don Whitney

Welcome to THE 2025 Spring Semester!

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Most Mondays, 5:30pm - 6:30pm (Remote)
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Favorite Quotes

"Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose." -- Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, 2005

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You just have to decide what kind of a man you want to grow up to be. Because whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's gonna change the world. -- Jonathan Kent, Smallville

"In God we trust; all others must bring data." -- unverified author

"Life is nothing without trivia, but nothing in life is trivial." - Don Whitney

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan

"There is no reason anyone in the right state of mind will want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar water or do you want a chance to change the world?" - Steve Jobs to John Sculley

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. -- Horace Mann, 1859

"Excuse me... What does God need with a starship?" -- Captain James T. Kirk, 1989

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge -- Dr. Stephen Hawking

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. - Proverbs 22:6

“To have made even one person’s life a little better, that is to succeed.” — Henry David Thoreau

"I don't know what weapons will be used for World War III, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" -- Unknown, just after WWII.

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in awhile you could miss it. --Ferris Bueller,  June 11, 1986

“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt” ― Mark Twain

Trust, but verify -- Present Ronald Reagan, 1986. In the original Russian “Doveryai no proveryai”

My advice is don't rule out community college or a trade school.  That's what I did. I graduated at a community college. And it was the best thing I ever did.   -- Mike Rowe, 2017

"Ancient Astronaut Theorists Say Yes" --  History Channel

Your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has! Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one! --Doc Emmett Brown, Oct. 27, 1985

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. --Ecclesiastes 1:4

In absentia lucis, tenebrae vincunt. In the absence of light, darkness prevails. -- unknown

"Bones heal, chicks dig scars, pain is temporary, glory is forever." -- Evel Knievel

If I can't teach you one way, I'll teach ya another. But I'm gonna get the job done. -- John Wayne as Sgt. John M. Stryker in Sands of Iwo Jima 1949

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. - Proverbs 16:18

"You have the strength that comes from knowing." --  GOD, Oh God!, 1977.

This Season in Tech-ish History

APRIL

April 1, 1930
Happy Birthday to the late, great and beautiful Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek‘s Yeoman Janice Rand
April 2, 1968
2001: A Space Odyssey movie is released. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL"....
April 3, 1860
Pony Express established
April 3, 1981
The Osborne 1 was the first commercially successful portable microcomputer.
April 7, 1964
The IBM System/360 (S/360) was a mainframe computer system family announced by IBM.
April 7, 1927
The first American demonstration of television. The live picture and voice of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover were transmitted over telephone lines from Washington, DC.
April 11-17, 1970
Apollo 13 (Odyssey and Aquarius)
April 12, 1961
First manned spaceflight. A 27-year-old pilot named Yuri Gagarin lifted off from the then Soviet Union aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. After 1 hour and 48 minutes, and a single orbit of the Earth, he parachuted safely back to the ground.
April 12, 1981
NASA launches the first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, sending the Columbia on its maiden voyage.
April 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci's Birthday
April 15, 1912
The RMS Titanic sinks after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean on a voyage from Southampton, England to New York City.
April 18, 1775
Paul Revere began his ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.
April 18, 1906
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco, and the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. Measuring between 7.7 to 8.25 magnitude. Death toll was over 3000.
April 18, 1955
Physicist Albert Einstein died at age 76.
April 18, 1983
The Osborne Computer Corporation officially announced the Osborne Executive portable computer, the follow-up to its extremely successful Osborne 1.
April 21, 1910
Mark Twain died
April 24, 1967
Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
April 24, 1970
The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
April 24, 1990
STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
April 25
World Penguin Day. World Penguin Day coincides with the annual northward migration of penguins. This happens each year on or around April 25th. Penguins do not fly. Rather, they walk, or waddle their way to and from. Penguins are found in Antarctica, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, the Falkland Islands, and the Galapagos Islands.
April 25, 1988
Star Trek: Next Generation episode "Skin of Evil". Lieutenant Tasha Yar is killed by an oil slick alien named Armus

MAY

May
Free Comic Book Day, taking place on the first Saturday of May
May 1, 2015
Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek‘s Yeoman Rand, died at the age of eighty-five.
May 4
Star Wars Day. May the fourth be with you!
May 4, 1961
Astronaut Alan Shepard launches in Mercury Redstone spacecraft named Freedom 7 to become the first American in space.
May 6, 1937
The Dirigible Hindenburg explodes into flames at Lakehurst, NJ. "Oh, the humanity!"
May 7, 1888
George Eastman patents the Box Camera.
May 9, 1869
A "Golden Spike" was driven into the railroad tracks at Promontory Summit Utah. This connected the tracks of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads, creating the first Transcontinental railroad.
May 9, 1869
National Train Day.
May 11, 2001
Douglas Adams dies, author of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Born March 11, 1952
May 17, 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness opens. May 15 pre-show.
May 21, 1932
Amelia Earhart flies across the Atlantic Ocean
May 25, 1977
Star Wars movie is released

 

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