A Man And His Ideas

  Circle Diamond Square Code Breaker Game The Circle Diamond Square is a two-player game in which players compete to find the other players' secret number. The secret number has four digits, each digit a number between 0 and 9; all the numbers are different. The players take turns as the Coder and the Decoder. The  Coder picks a secret number code; the Decoder attempts to crack the code using clues from the Coder. Each player has a worksheet with tables with rows and columns for writing the code number, decode number and the clues.   The game begins when the Coder writes four secret number digits in the Coder table’s top row. To start guessing the secret number, the Decoder writes four numbers in the top row of the Decoder table. The Decoder tells the Coder the number. The Coder writes the guess on the row under the secret number. The Coder responds with a clue in circle, diamond, or square code that the Decoder uses to deduce the secret number.   If the g...

Feature: Dirty Doubles Stud Poker  I n 1998, when a few of us got together is to play nickel, dime, quarter poker, I invented the dirty doubles poker game. Many card games use partners as part of the gameplay. 5 card stud poker intrigued me as an oppunitity to devise a partner type game for poker.  Dirty Doubles is a stud poker game in which each player has the possibility to gamble with 6 up cards in a hand 1-6-1. The deal remains 1-3-1, but by random selection each player has a partner where both partners share the other partner’s up cards. Each betting player can use a combination from 5, 6, 7, or 8 cards to make a 5-card poker hand. The hand should be played with and even number of players, preferably 6, however, a variation can be played with an odd number of players. The Game: Each player has a partner. The stud up cards are shared between each partner in thus increasing the possible winning hand combinations. For example, in 1-3-1 five-card stud, the p...

Veterans' Benefit 38 USC 1725  Statues as an Information Model 38 USC 1725 is the Law about business relationships with veterans, DVA, community providers, private insurance, and others. This information model describes the business relationships. Technical Background Dictionary: An information model in software engineering is a representation of concepts and the relationships, constraints, rules, and operations to specify data semantics for a chosen domain of discourse. Typically, it specifies relations between kinds of things, but may also include relations with individual things. It can provide a sharable, stable, and organized structure of information requirements or knowledge for the domain context. Ontology Models – Formal structures (classification systems, assemblies, and parts, language) Affinity Models – Abstract structures (diagnostic, association, disassociation, discrimination, acceptance)   Social Models – Tribe structures (law, group dynamics, ...

Happy Birthday Jimmie Sept 22, 2012 Dear Jimmie, This is a letter I wrote to Jimmie Heuga , ski racer, MS champion, my pedal partner on my first 150 Bike MS ride. His was the inspiration for Can    Do MS in Vail. September 22 was Jimmie’s birthday and he died February 2010.   Two years later, on his birthday, I did a bike ride that was a challenge for me. This is a letter I wrote to him about the ride.      Dear Jimmie, This is a letter I wrote to Jimmie Heuga , ski racer, MS champion, my pedal partner on my first 150 Bike MS ride. His was the inspiration for Can    Do MS in Vail. September 22 was Jimmie’s birthday and he died February 2010.  Two years later, on his birthday, I did a bike ride that was a challenge for me. This is a letter I wrote to him about the ride.      On Saturday the 22nd, 4 friends and I rode a bicycle ride I tagged as the CanDo 50.  The ride heads west from Loveland. At th...

The title of this blog is "A Man and His Ideas". Everybody has ideas. Over the years, I collected a few. Some of the blog entries are prose, some are just a drawing or a picture. The URL name for the blog is ideas.resipso.com. The term resipso is Latin slang for res ipsa loquitur , which means "the thing speaks for itself." Lawyers use the term to argue negligence. But, in nature and art, the presence of the thing speaks for itself to create a personal affinity with the thing. For an idea to be a thing, the idea needs some substance that allows others can hear it speak. Res Ipso This Blog is about my experiences, collections of thoughts and ideas. In May 2019, I was 70. While the calendar counting of age does not disturb me, in fact, just the success of making another year is exciting. During the natural progression of age, our bodies make many changes. The strength of youth changes to the strength of canes. Because of the show shrinking of the brai...