by Roel Snieder | Nov 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
As I left my house a wave of nausea swept over me and I threw up on the driveway. I was on my way to my first training in the burn building, which was part of my training as a firefighter. The burn building is a concrete shell of a building. It was filled with pallets...
by Roel Snieder | Oct 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Several years ago I watched the movie Cosi Come Sei. To be honest, I don’t recall the story of the movie at all, I watched the movie because the main actor Marcello Mastrioanni reminded me of my father. But I do remember one thing about the movie, this is when...
by Roel Snieder | Oct 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
In my research I had developed a theory to extract information from recorded noise. I knew that developing a theory is one thing, but that without an application to real data the theory did not have much credibility. The problem was that I did not have any data I...
by Roel Snieder | Sep 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
My father Wim passed away in 1994. My bothers and I deeply loved him and still miss him. After our father died, my brother Frank asked us if he could have our father’s watch. This question was unusual because my brother does not care about “stuff.” We told him that he...
by Roel Snieder | Sep 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the still face experiment of Dr Tronick, a mother plays with her baby. The baby points and the mother responds by looking in the direction where her child points. She talks to the baby in a loving way. Suddenly the mother takes on a still face, meaning that she...
