life experiences

8th Grade Stories

8th Grade Stories

Bruce Ediger

I was in 8th grade for the 1974-1975 school year. For some reason, my mother kept the 1975 edition of Comet, the yearbook of Ophelia Parrish Junior High School. I just re-discovered it.

Machine Is Not Broken

Machine Is Not Broken

Bruce Ediger

Had to go to Air Care Colorado to get my car emissions checked. The experience was jarringly sloppy.

Ashen

Ashen

Bruce Ediger

You can find some interesting grafitti on the east side of I-25, just south of exit 262 (Colorado 392, Windsor, CO) in Colorado.

Butterfly With Snow

Butterfly With Snow

Bruce Ediger

It snowed at my place the night of October 29, 2023. The next day I saw the most Colorado thing possible.

Halloween Memories!

Bruce Ediger

Back when my kids were still young and innocent enough to want to go trick-or-treating, for a few years we went to some suburban friends cul-de-sac-filled neighborhood.

Gall's Law

Bruce Ediger

I ran across an engineering aphorism or principle called “Gall’s Law”:

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.