Tiny snowflakes are blitzing down so fast. I’m gazing out these giant picture windows, past old men reading the paper over their coffee, out at the road and sidewalk and shopping mall. A Bobcat drives by to clear the sidewalk.
This fit with the latest post: There is nothing like sitting in a meeting, listening to new experts explain a situation to established experts, knowing that you haven’t really gotten involved but thinking the new experts had some gaping holes…
Coming up, I’m starting a new, six-part series about what I wish people knew about engineers. This is inspired by assumptions I’ve encountered at conventions, committees, church, and anywhere else I’ve spent time interacting with non-engineers; there are a plethora…
I feel as if I were destined to cosplay. It started with dress-up, of course: a spare hamper of Mom’s castoffs and old Halloween costumes, set aside for play time. Perhaps it’s meant to indoctrinate young girls into a culture…
At the end of September, the New York Times posted an article on 27 Ways to be a Modern Man, which was widely ridiculed. Since we’re in the new millennium, it requires a complement on ways to be a modern…
