Want your own stump to stand on and shout to the world?

Family is like this; it stays with you no matter what.

Some of the engineers I work with design computerized flight control systems such as those that would be considered “fly by wire” or that fly autonomously with no human in control. As such, I’m always looking for ideas on how to make software that is more and more reliable.

SUMMER!!!

It ends in 36 hours. That’s when the 100+ degree highs are finished for the year.

People do unforgivable things. When it’s a parent …

Mark’s Towing

The schoolbus-sized satellite that’s predicted to come down later this week will, the tingling in my toes tells me, hit the Mojave desert as I pass through, somewhere between Twentynine Palms CA and Parker AZ.

Omens

1. Badge lady in sour mood
2. No paperwork for Visitor badge
3. No cell phone number for company contact
4. Equipment still in receiving two miles away
5. Class arrives 30 minutes early
6. Half of class does not have prerequisites
7. Two people missing, two substitutes take seats and books, original people then arrive
8. Equipment arrives six hours late
9. Equipment freezes, no error message
10. People responsible for equipment in earlier time zone already gone for the day
11. Hotel happy hour cancelled