life experiences

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.

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.

What an unbelievably stupid tie-in.

Google notified me that 1,000 cellphones have viewed my review of a parking lot!

Found an unusual bum sign in Downtown Denver.

I took this picture on Drake Ave in Fort Collins. I was afraid to try to decipher the runes for fear of finding out there were some god damn neo-nazis in my neighborhood.

Make one box of mac-n-cheese, kids scarf it and clamor for more.

We all know that Meat Loaf (the popular singer) can offer many life, career, and managment lessons.

But so does meatloaf, the iconic midwestern weeknight entré!

I had jobs as a stress analyst at major aerospace companies in the 1980s.