Thank goodness for the Prescott Valley Library–a world class public library in anybody’s book. Amazingly, I would have say that, even though it is dramatically smaller, as a place to work on volunteer developer on fine side projects, it works for me just as well as the fabulous new Hunt Library at NCSU. Hopefully, I will be there this time next week. Just like biscuits and gravy at McDonald’s, there is something else Prescott Valley does not have. On the drive to the Hunt Library this morning, about a block before we got there, we passed the world headquarters of RedHat, one of the premier open source software companies in the world–right on the NCSU campus. SAS is there, too. NCSU is really doing some amazing things at their school. Just one example of this is their category leading Advanced Analytics Institute as a prototype for the rest of the world on how to prepare engineers for industry better than anyone else. Kudos.
Remember back when I was whining about the biscuits at McDonalds in Prescott Valley, Arizona? Well, we went to McDonalds in Cameron Village (Raleigh, North Carolina) close to the NCSU campus. Well, we went back to our favorite McDonalds in Raleigh (at Cameron Village) and got the biscuits and gravy. My suspicions were confirmed. First of all, they don’t even offer the biscuits with gravy in Prescott Valley and the biscuits the offer there are wildly less appetizing then those in Cameron Village. Enuf sed.