I'm not going to write much today about Don Lemmon. Later I will.

Don is a friend and he died in a car accident on June 16th. He was driving alone on a deserted stretch of road at night and his car flipped. Maybe he was tired.

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Well, I'm no longer employed by NASA. It's funny how good it feels to leave. I feel a slight regret, but it's been so much of a struggle the past two years, spending almost all of my time searching for funds for my projects with little or no support from management, that mostly I feel a huge sense of relief. With NASA getting out of the research ( Read more... )

I'm using new journal client called "charm". It's completely written ( Read more... )

Just heard of the new Poet Laureate of the U.S., Ted Kooser. I like some of what I've read ( Read more... )

Strange week. Change, in my life, usually comes about in one of two ways. Sometimes events compel change regardless of my intent or desire. My past actions can play a part in these events, such as my divorce, or I can be innocent of any causal function, such as 9/11, or the psychological earthquake I experienced after my daughter was born. But I ( Read more... )

I'm the manager of my 9 year old daughters soccer team. The coach just handed out to the parents a statement of his coaching philosophy. The main point, which shapes all his thoughts is that for this team the goal should be having fun and developing skills. Reading it crystalized some thoughts I've had for a while on sports and the concept of " ( Read more... )

Well, I'm going to make another attempt at regularly posting to my journal. My summer has been a nightmare in most areas of my life. My main project at work, funded by the Defense Department, got cancelled, after they decided that they had gotten most of the benefit from it after 2 years. So I had to scramble to find ways to pay my team. That took ( Read more... )

Man, this week has been non-stop intensely focused work and stress. I've had 2 big projects that needed lots of extra time, and then in the middle of the week, one of my colleagues from USC asked me whether I would co-sponsor a new proposal for NASAs "Human and Robotic Technology" research announcement. So I had to drop everything and spend a day ( Read more... )

(note* started this yesterday, 7-20-2004 ( Read more... )

Berkeley is such a silly place for the most part. And so much of the silliness is either offensive or witless or simply puzzling. But sometimes it can also be charming ( Read more... )