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Selling Traeger Wood Pellet Grills since 2001

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Now serving Marin to Carmel

What exactly is a Traeger Wood Pellet Grill?

Click here to request a free catalog or order a grill

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Your Grill of Rights

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Barbecues at Pebble Beach

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1. Family, starting with Wini, the light of my life.

2. Baseball, for example. Visit The Diamond Angle, rain or shine.

3. Our friends at Kadon Enterprises make a fine collection of beautiful games and puzzles. They are a wonderful source of gifts for friends and family. No batteries are required, although curiosity and thought are!

4. If you are looking for a great golf pro in the San Francisco area, see Alex Robles Jr. at (415) 596-3231.

5. Interested in the original "Barbecue Joe?" Hint: Dixieland Music is involved!

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6. For the classical scholars, you can read about barbecue in The Iliad.

7. Our trip to Spain inspired The Ode to the Anchovy.

8. Need to do something about that awful chronic slice of yours? Click on the picture

9. Warm beer again? We have a solution to that problem too.

10. Would you like to recommend a book to me? Click here.

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11. No tool kit would be complete without the French Army Knife.

12. If you think Hummers are for wimps, I may have a mailbox for you.

13. Richard Feynman and my dad overlapped at my alma mater, Far Rockaway High School. Visit this link to see some photos we took on a sentimental journey in 2001.

14. COMAP's educational philosophy is centered around mathematical modeling: using mathematical tools to explore real-world problems. Have a look at their stuff.  

15. World going to hell in a hand basket? Can't do anything about it? Wrong! Make a difference in one child's life: learn about CASA and CASA in Monterey County.  

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16. Do you have problems solving problems? Would you like a more systematic approach? Have a look at my problem-solving clock.

17. Is "growth" good or bad? Does growth inevitably lead to decline? Healthy organizations tend to grow, but can their very growth threaten their success and even their continued existence? Investigate this further.

18. For a complete list of my publications, click here.

19. Thinking about writing a book? You might want to read this interview first.

20. Here is where you can learn about my four black cars.

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21. Do you believe in the "80/20 Rule"? Sometimes it doesn't work.

22. My Erdös Number is five. On the other hand, my "Bacon Number" is infinite. What conclusions can we draw about entertainers and mathematicians by looking at the distribution of these numbers? Have a look. The interesting stuff is at the end of the Erdös Number page.

23. Been draggin' lately? Have a dragon look you over. With thanks to John Walker.

24. Here's a neat new way to compute pi. There's an additional side benefit if you hover the cursor over it.

    

    The interesting details can be found here.

25. November 2005: Barbecue Joe has taken a day job. Click here for the details. Y indeed! Because it felt good. N8 Systems was subsequently renamed Ravenflow. (See February 2008 update AD below.)

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26. If you are a member of the IEEE and are interested in why software tools have a tough time getting adopted in the business world, check out this article by my friend Eugene Farmer from the November/December 2006 issue of IEEE Software. (The article is a paid link for non-members; the IEEE has to recover its costs.)

27. Ravenflow is the 2006 winner of the Silicon Valley Business Journal's Emerging Technology Award in the Collaboration category. Here are the announcement, press release, and full story.

28. Are you interested in the "Agile Method" for doing software development? Here is something you might find thought provoking.

29. Ravenflow received the prestigious 2007 SD Times 100 award in the Modeling category.

30. Barbecue Joe has retired from Ravenflow, as of February 2008.

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There's More to Life than Barbecue

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Get
The Software Development Edge

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For those of you who don't enjoy arguing about how to split up a pile of stuff with someone else, or who don't view complex negotiations as a good way to pass the time, we have a solution for you. The Brams Taylor Method is great for adjudicating two-party disputes without the need for a third party. Click on the picture to learn more.

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Resolving Disputes

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Nomography

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For the more general problem of what constitutes scientific "proof" and some interesting connections to software, click here.

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Are You a Scientist?

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The Stomachion

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Archimedes was without a doubt the greatest Sicilian who ever lived. Yes, he is thought of as Greek, but he was born and lived almost all his life in Syracuse, on the island of Sicily. He was the best mathematician of antiquity, and invented a form of integral calculus over eighteen hundred years before Newton and Leibniz. He also pioneered the science we know today as physics. One can only speculate how much further along we would be today if his works had not been lost for hundreds of years during the Dark Ages.

We now also believe that he was the first mathematician to broach the subject of combinatorics, one of the bedrocks of computer science. And how do we know this? Because of a puzzle he took an interest in over two hundred years before the birth of Christ.

Click on the picture of The Stomachion to learn more.

Diagram courtesy Chris Rorres, University of Pennsylvania

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