Title: Lunar Base Lost Category and Genre: Adult SCI-FI Word Count: 89,000 Query: LUNAR BASE LOST is set in an underground moon colony that lost contact with Earth after nuclear war broke out over fifty years ago. Lunar Base Three hangs on by maintaining a strict society and limiting its population. Isabela (Izzy) Rodriguez is […]
Read moreThe Enceladus Archive
When I was ten years old, I got an idea for a book. The story would be about a lonely eleven year old boy, growing up in rural Minnesota, whose only friend was a robot. To everybody else this robot looked like a normal human, but this lonely boy knew the robot’s secret. I started […]
Read morePurpose of HR Pioneers
One of the first items we focused on was the purpose of the book. Early on we agreed the book needed to be much more than a memoir. As we met and talked about the project, a real direction emerged. We decided to explore all sides of the HR function at Control Data; how it […]
Read moreMeetings Over Meals
The research for HR Pioneers pretty much started in restaurants. Jim Morris would set up meetings with Norb Berg, Frank Dawe, and Gene Baker over supper, and the five off us would meet. At first we met in a Greek restaurant right next to the Epicor building where I work, then other places along I-394 […]
Read moreOne Big Elephant
I mainly remembered CDC from their Control Data Institute commercials that aired during Saturday morning cartoons. I knew the company had developed computer technology, but that was about it. Jim explained Control Data was one of the most innovative mainframe computer developers and manufacturers in the 1960s-1980s. Seymour Cray was the first of the company’s […]
Read moreThe CDC Journey Begins
HR Pioneers: A History of Human Resource Innovations at Control Data Corporation will soon be published by North Star Press. I started this book five years ago with a team of former Control Data executives –Norb Berg, Frank Dawe, Jim Morris, and Gene Baker. The project has been a terrific journey, and for the next […]
Read moreSteve Jobs, Tough Boss
I recently finished reading the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. Given my day job in software development, I found the history about Steve Jobs’ co-founding of Apple, ejection from Apple, and triumphant return to Apple very telling. I identified with the world and culture of the book quite well. He was a tough boss […]
Read moreShakespeare. Author.
It’s an election year! Debates are raging and people are taking stands on various issues. They are right and the others are left! So I’m going to jump into the middle of a very important, very critical issue. And I have a point of view which I will vehemently argue. So. The issue at hand. […]
Read moreDescartes’ Bones
Rene Descartes was one of my favorite philosophers in college, mainly because “I think, therefore I am” was (and is) such a powerful, simple concept that explains why we are who we are. At the time I was also fascinated by the existential playwright Samuel Beckett, so I got permission from a philosophy professor to […]
Read moreJumping In!
I have planned to build a website for quite a while. It was one of those “I should do that somehow” tasks that never quite seemed to happen. I’ve been saving material in folders on multiple computers for multiple years now, but squeezing in study time and then development time was tough. I finally cracked open […]
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