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That was years ago. I was in the Semiconductor Industry and specifically selling to the Automotive Industry for several years. I was based in Japan and responsible for the Asia-Pacific region and had some Japanese and European customers with …

I'm using DuoLingo for Spanish. 778 Days on my streak. I had a few streaks going (and broken) before that, but this is by far the longest (helped by Shelter-in-Place). It's pretty fun, but indeed pretty random, and sometimes the English …

Great ambitous goals! I wish you success on both. Thanks for your important work, BTW!

Where is your NEXT big adventure?

Oh! That was our big plans for July! 10+ days in Uganda and nearly 2 weeks in Tanzania. Bwindi was the "core" of the trip. Obviously this little thing called Covid-19 had different ideas for what people should be doing this year. We didn't cancel …

> "Can’t I just be the guy in the room who sits quietly listening to the fascinating stories that others tell?" Not when you have such interesting stories to tell as well ;-)

Hi Stephen, always such interesting topics. What about you? Tell us about your brushes with fame! So for me, my favorite Physics Professor during college went on to become a Hugo and Nebula Award winning SciFi writer (his first novel had just been …

Fog Fighters, formerly known as the Foo Fighters... good one!

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I hope Factotum comes back and weighs in on this! But i (pun?) think the movie is (drum roll.....) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye#/media/File:GoldenEye_-_UK_cinema_poster.jpg So nothing about imaginary (or complex numbers) like Factotum …

I think I have it! Paradigm shift really helped! But I don't want to give it away other than to test my hypothesis by asking you a question. If you were to think about a hint in NUMERICAL terms, would the number 7 come up in a significant way …

Man, I lost so much time going down the Imaginary and Complex route.... a+bi is the traditional way of denoting a complex number, where i is indeed the imaginary unit. Sometime I need to learn to break free of my paradigms....

Brilliant!

BTW, you had already solved "The Sum of All Fears" but left that off your summary. I'm sure that is correct.

Darn you Stephen :-) You got me hooked on this thing! B4 is "Heat" (1995 Pacino/DeNiro) or "The Heat" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heat_(film)#/media/File:The_Heat_poster.jpg This one took me hours of research. I'm not smart enough to …

That's so good! The Green Mile absolutley makes sense!! I was struggling with Sin City... I thought of that and sort of disgarded it, because at least I pronounce it like "sign" sīn and just from a spelling point of view the "e" is missing, but …

A4 is "Beauty and the Beast".... and that is a rather subtle one.... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Beautybeastposter.jpg The top part is Euler's Identity, which is said to be the most beautiful equation ever... and 666 is the …

Going out on a limb here, but I THINK D1 is Mean Girls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Girls#/media/File:Mean_Girls_film_poster.png The equation looks like the mean equation and the "variable" looks like a girl...

C1 MIGHT be Signs? (It's just 4 sign waves) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signs_(film)#/media/File:The_Signs_movie.jpg

D4 is Wall-E. (e = 2.7182818284...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E#/media/File:WALL-Eposter.jpg

"Speed" (1994 film). It's an absolute value. Velocity as a math function is a vector with direction and would not be written with the absolute value.

Could be! But, I'm going with Matrix, as that is how you would show a matrix...

C4 is "Speed" ds/dt is how you write velocity. The absolute value of velocity is Speed. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Speed_movie_poster.jpg

Ok. This picture pretty low resolution. Very early Digital Camera Tech.... but YES, Monkeys have been trying to figure out how to ride motorbikes for a while now... They will get the hang of it sooner or later (this was taken at Angkor Thom in …

Love your attitude.