Jim Scott

Author of Snow Fall & Snow Angel


Random Numbers


Posted By on Apr 12, 2017

For those of you who do not know, I am a computer guy.  I write software for a living.  You may not realize this, but most advanced programming languages have modules built into them which allow the computer to generate random numbers.  You may well ask, what is the value of having a computer randomly generate a number?  After all, you would not want it to generate a random balance for your checkbook or a random number of miles shown...

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P.T. Barnum was right


Posted By on Apr 12, 2017

So a couple of years ago my nephew Steve died.  Among his possessions was a 1979 Vespa P200E scooter with a sidecar.  My wife had been talking about getting a scooter for some time.  She just thought they were cute and that she could ride it to work to save on gas.  Now bear in mind that my wife already drives a fuel efficient little car and works about 1/3 of a mile from our home.  She could walk to work if she wanted to and probably...

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Pet Peeve


Posted By on Apr 12, 2017

If you have read any of my character Morgan Snow’s posts on his Facebook page, then you know a pet peeve of his is people abusing handicap parking.  I share that pet peeve with him, but I have another.  It drives me nuts when you go to any parking lot for a store that uses shopping carts, to find those carts spewed across the parking lot because people are too lazy to take them to the racks.  I also hate when people take the cart to...

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Patience is a Virtue


Posted By on Apr 12, 2017

Why can’t people wait?  Every day when you go out on the Internet or turn on the TV, there is some news about some upcoming movie.  There is hardly a day that goes by without an update on the Age of Ultron or the Batman versus Superman movie.  You know what?  I don’t want to have already seen the movie before I go to the movie.  They start putting out clips one after another.  Have you ever gone to see a comedy, and after you have sat...

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