Author: Roland Hughes

Roland Hughes is the president of Logikal Solutions, a business applications consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS platforms and Qt on Linux. Hughes serves as a lead consultant with over two decades of experience using computers and operating systems. With a degree in Computer Information Systems, the author's experience is focused on systems across a variety of diverse industries including heavy equipment manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, stock exchanges, tax accounting, and hardware value-added resellers, to name a few. Working throughout these industries has strengthened the author's unique skill set and given him a broad perspective on the role and value of technology in industry.

Experience Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Fentanyl – What You Aren’t Being Told

We aren’t getting the whole Fentanyl story. I had to literally experience the real Fentanyl story. Roughly six years ago I went in for the dreaded “upper and lower.” I was only required to do the upper as a result of acid reflux but given my family history opted to…

Roland HughesSeptember 19, 2019January 25, 2021

Experience Society Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Facebook is Hazardous to Your Health

Nope, this is not just a cranky old guy rant. This is actual medical science. Facebook destroys your life both emotionally and physically. There has now been a clinical study involving professors from Yale and UC San Diego proving this very thing. Even the Harvard Business Review has been weighing…

Roland HughesSeptember 3, 2019January 25, 2021

Experience

I bet his coach regrets telling him to throw where he is looking

Featured image courtesy of Please Don’t sell My Artwork AS IS from Pixabay Ian Book, you should probably make that cheerleader your first ex-wife. Video of pass which broke cheerleader’s nose The funny part of the video is the tiny span of seconds before impact she is just staring at…

Roland HughesSeptember 3, 2019January 25, 2021

Reviews

Review – Shrink (2009)

★★★★☆ Kevin Spacey can really act.I realize some consider him an acquired taste, but I like much of what he does. He brings a certain energy to a role which is hard to describe. I didn’t get around to watching this movie until after Robin Williams had passed so…

Roland HughesAugust 31, 2019January 25, 2021

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The Ever Shrinking Definition of Fully Equipped

Featured image courtesy of TripAdvisor.com As a traveling consultant I spend a lot of time in extended stay type hotels with their ever shrinking definition of “fully equipped.” Unless I’m traveling to a client site where I’ve worked previously I tend to spend the first month or more at these…

Roland HughesAugust 30, 2019January 25, 2021

Experience Society Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Why no prison time for big pharma?

As I look at the settlement for Purdue Pharma and a few others, I have to ask the question, “Why no prison time for big pharma?” Has American politics and by extension the Justice Department gotten so corrupt that any large campaign contributor can commit murder and face no prison…

Roland HughesAugust 29, 2019January 25, 2021

Reviews

Review – Sicario

★★☆☆☆ I hate to admit it, but I was really disappointed with Sicario. It had all of the right things behind it and it failed. I rented this movie because it had Emily Blunt and what ordinary guy doesn’t like a story about the FBI hunting down a drug lord?…

Roland HughesAugust 27, 2019January 26, 2021