I was particularly intrigued by The Economist’s latest special feature about manufacturing and innovation. Not so much because they are reporting on anything that is so groundbreaking to me, or most engineers I would think, but because they gave exposure to the exact kind of thing I do – engineering custom solutions on the fly …
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Yes! I am a long way from home
Pioneers! O Pioneers! (Walt Whitman) Come my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes? Pioneers! O pioneers! For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on …
Yosemite in a day
Waking up among almond trees in Oakdale, Mark and I rode too small bikes with too flat tires into town to pick up our rental car. It was sunny and bright and a little chilly but I can’t complain about riding bikes in California. We were early to pick up the car, so went around …
A brief summary of 24 hours in San Francisco
Our flight out of Chicago was delayed a few hours, but there are only so many $8 airport bar beers I can drink while waiting. I don’t travel by air that frequently, but I will say from now on, whenever I can, Virgin America is my new airline of choice. I’d flown Virgin Blue around …
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I finally got back from spring breaking in California at 3am this morning, so while I readjust to connected civilization and sort through the 600 or so pictures I took, here’s a sampling of Instagram pictures from the week. And now that Instagram is finally available on iOS and Android, consider following me if you want …
The weather this month has been beyond unreasonably great. Tulips are blooming already. I’ve been riding bikes lots and lots and lots. And busy with other life things too. My first race of the year is tomorrow. It’s off-road. It has rained all day today and we’re in an “areal flood advisory”. Tomorrow is going …
Does this happen to anyone else who wears contacts? Where your sunglasses don’t quite fit the shape of your face, and so you’re riding your bike along because maybe the sun was out an hour ago and it was 40 degrees and the roads are clear even though it has started snowing again. And because …
Outside today it is Tennessee, a year ago. I’m wearing my raincoat and walking swiftly with my head down to avoid getting raindrops on the lenses of my glasses, and I should have worn another layer, because it’s cold – not at all like yesterday. Or maybe gloves, at the least. My hands are never …
Media blitz
Appear on the front page of the newspaper: check I appreciate the Onion-esque headline. “Area man does semi-notable thing”
Two weeks ago, during the blizzard when we all nearly got snowed in, I was walking on clouds and trying to soak up every snowflake. I walked down the middle of the road and felt insulated by life and by the world. Nothing could make me cold. All that snow soon melted from the unseasonably …