I had just come home from my first day of first grade. As I settled down with my afternoon snack, Mom began asking her usual questions. "How was your first day of school ( Read more... )

Howdy.

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It's one of those quirks of life that I've never really understood: the way life's big changes always end up happening in clumps.

As of my last post on job stuff, the arrangement with Mr. Consulting was this: I'd do some homework on professional licensing, and he would examine his business needs to see if hiring me would be the right ( Read more... )

So...I'm getting married today.

No time for a heart-warming soliloquy or flowery ode - I have to go pick up the cake!

Wish me luck!

During my senior year of college, when all us students began looking for real-world jobs, the career counselors told us that only 20% of all jobs are obtained through job fairs or classifieds. 75% percent are gained through networking. I used to think that this was because people are inherently lazy. Nowadays, though, I can see the real reasons ( Read more... )

Sorry for the slow posting. The month has been busy, full as it was with job searching and tying up loose ends and GRE testing and wedding details. Not much worth noting, and even less worth remembering ( Read more... )

As usual, slow posting = eventful life ( Read more... )

It's amazing how time flies when you're having fun ( Read more... )

It was getting late, and we were getting tired. The conveyor had been down for three hours at that point, and nobody was quite sure why. Plant personnel were running around with brooms like the last line of defense against an army of dust bunnies. All of the managers had been called in from home, and they were none too happy ( Read more... )

Up to now, the project had been going pretty well. Or, at least, as well as could be expected. Because of hang-ups earlier in the project, our portion started two weeks late, and we ran into a ridiculous number of both silly and serious problems along the way. But we were close. Given all of the setbacks, we had done a great job up to this point, ( Read more... )

From a paper on safety in robot design:

"We consider errors of human operation slip among three well-known human error types in particular: slips, lapses, and mistakes."

I guess "oopsies" and "screwing-up big time" just don't make it into scientific literature any more.

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This gets me riled up. I can understand passing the Patriot Act in the ( Read more... )