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Just got back from a trip out to Breckenridge, CO. On the second day we headed out to Vail. I have the feeling this is the start of an annual trip. The skiing was like nothing I have ever experienced. Check out the photos.
Check out the photos.
My boss pointed me to a wired article talking about the "Enron Corpus", the collection of 619,446 E-Mails publicly available as a result of the trial.
What a great source of data to practice data mining on. In particular a new visualization engine I heard about called Prefuse from Jeffrey Heer. Check out the Precipe toolkit being used on the Enron Corpus. Very cool stuff.
APQC is a research organization that solves business problems in the areas of metrics, measurement, best practices, process improvement, benchmarking, and knowledge management. By registering for free you can access some very good white papers, studies, surveys and other useful documents. I recommend anyone looking to become more familiar with KM register and read the material.
As I was taking the dust off of my portfolio and resume this weekend I came accross the link to my senior design project, a Remote Aquarium Monitor and Control System. It was one of the most engaging things i got to work on during college. Check out our homemade underwater temperature sensor. It saved us a $50-$100 in expenses and worked incredibly well.
The project was featured on RNews (Rochester News Station) and the Democrat and Chronicle.
Makes 4 fillets
Total time: 40 minutes
1 cup tomato, seeded, chopped
1 cup leeks, thinly sliced
½ cup green bell pepper chopped
1 T. garlic minced
4 red snapper fillets (6 oz. each), boned and skinned
½ cup coarse bread crumbs
½ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
½ cup plain potato chips, crushed
½ t. paprika
¼ t. cayenne
2 T. unsalted butter, melted
1 T. scallion, thinly sliced
Lemon wedges
Preheat oven to 450 degrees
Combine first four ingredients in a bowl. Spread on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray.
Arrange fillets on top of vegetables; season with salt and pepper to taste.
Combine crumbs and next four ingredients; toss with melted butter. Divide crumb mixture evenly over each fillet, pressing into the fish. Bake 20 minutes, or until fillets flake easily when tested with a fork.
Sprinkle with scallion and serve with lemon wedges.
Fish options
Snapper alternatives:
Don’t get hung up on using red snapper—it can be hard to find. Why? To reduce over fishing, fresh snapper is only available for about the first ten days of each month. But that’s okay. Flounder, tilapia, and other flat fish fillets work fine. Cooking time runs about 10 minutes for each inch of thickness (that includes the tomato layer and breading).
There are many unique aspects of capturing business for your company in government compared with private industry. First of all contracts must be publicly announced, allowing newcomers to the field to be able to find new opportunities. For NASA the website to monitor is the NASA Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS) website. You can search using specific criteria or register to be notified of new business opportunities in a certain area.
So once you identify an opportunity how do you go after it. Initially the government posts a synopsis describing the details of the contract. After determining that some of the work in a given contract is in your area of interest the next step is to see if there is any restrictions on what type of businesses can go after the work. A very common thing to do is to only allow small businesses or small disadvantaged businesses go after the work. Some common types of small disadvanted businesses include:
I’ll get into more into this subject in a later article.
1 Cup Whiskey
3 Eggs
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 pint heavy cream
1 tablespoon chocolate syrup
1 teaspoon instant coffee
1/2 teaspoon coconut extract
Mix in blender
Chill overnight
Note: I usually add more whiskey then the recipe calls for.