All it takes is a reframe, right? By writing 13 down in computer code (Base 2), not a shiver runs up or down our spine. 1101.
Continue reading 1101. Doesn’t make you nervous at all, does it?
Let me first describe a situation for you. Then, let’s consider if it’s fair. And, then, I’ll tell you who it is about.
Continue reading Is this gouging? Or not?
What a week. Leap year. Jack Welch passes the very next day. And, then Amo Houghton, who succumbed on 4 March.
I belong to a very select club. OK, it’s less select now than when I first joined up. But, still.
Continue reading Jack Welch, PhD ChemE
Tonight starts one of my children’s (and now, grandchild’s) favorite holidays, Purim (“Lots”). It also helped set my life’s compass. (I’ll explain this aspect later.)
Continue reading A little more wine?
March 7, 1965. The first attempt at the Selma to Montgomery March. 55 years ago- and despite the Voting Rights Act that was one of the primary results of this march- we still live in a country that suppresses the votes of minorities and the poor.
Continue reading 55 years ago tomorrow
I’ve told you before how engineers (not ChemE’s) were trained back when I was going to school. It was clearly a concept of “we will make you equal” development. The engineer-in-training was honed to be completely compatible with the square box that the professors envisioned for their students.
Continue reading Personality- Traits and Values
Given the Covid-19 pandemic, I am updating this post from 2016. (This is the third in the series about the pandemic. Here’s one and two.) Because – at least for now- the best way we can ensure that we are not among those visited by the virus is to wash our hands often- and correctly.
Continue reading It’s time to learn how to wash our hands- again.
I wasn’t going to do this. But, after seeing a bunch of BS spreading around on FB, I knew someone had to be rational. And, I’m going to spread this over three days, since I want to cover a few critical areas.
Continue reading Pandemic. Not Panic.