Stars and Stripes

Happy Flag Day 

Yesterday’s clouds are gone, leaving only sunny skies.

History 

Just like ships crossing the ocean hundreds of years ago during colonial discovery, going to the moon was a voyage to the unknown. A mission to explore uncharted depths of space.  

The Sales Pitch

Imagine trying to sell NASA on a computer system in the early 60s filled with integrated chips when computers back then were the size of a room, Software wasn’t even invented yet and everybody thought computers weren’t reliable. In the 60’s software was like the Wild West, nobody knew anything about it. For the development of the program NASA would  rely on a woman programmer named Margaret and among many others a young 23 year old Don, who was just happy to have a job, but ended up designing software program for the Apollo lunar landing. 

50 in July 

Throwback to July 1969, two weeks before Mom was in labor giving birth to yours truly, the world held it’s breath when the human race landed on the Moon. It was one of humanity’s greatest achievements.President Kennedy said in the early 60s “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard” Kennedy's words still have the power to inspire us.  

We can do anything we set our minds to.  Doubt or uncertainty about making that important sales pitch?  Just take the first step ....“You can do it and you will, the very difficulty of it is why you must”.  You never know, you might make history.

Source: 13 minutes to the moon podcast.

Car Industry writing code?

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced at their Annual Shareholder Meeting, the company is “pretty close to being able to release its own insurance product and that it has “a bit of software to write” to make it “ready for market”.  
Is it smart for the car industry to get into insurance?

Source: TechCrunch.com

Two cars Different states

You can own and keep a car in a state that isn't your permanent residence, but you should register and insure it in the state that it is garaged.