Author Archives: Bill Ruhsam

If you don’t know what I mean when I say “mean is not the median”, I suggest you spend some time with wikipedia.

Yes, all that stuff. And sleep. We will not be sacrificing sleep, trust me. The fermenter pictured here is now empty (and clean) after having dispersed its contents to 50 individual bottles, as shown here. After filling the bottles, I … Continue reading →

Today, I actually LOL’d. Yes, I laughed out loud and summoned people to my office to be shown why. First, background. Apparently, if you are a licensed professional engineer in Tennessee, you are subject not only to a $140 bi-annual … Continue reading →

This is my commute, every day at 5:20. I need to live closer to work.

In case you haven’t been reading my blog, there was a ballot measure during the March 6th primary to authorize “Sunday” sales of alcohol here in Cobb County1. The measure passed resoundingly, in unincorporated Cobb County and in all of … Continue reading →

To relieve everyone from my political side, here are some pictures taken recently. Careful when moving furniture. You might find a cat inside Remember to change the default password on your variable message boards. Construction is proceeding on the Ashford … Continue reading →

This legislative session is 5 days from being over. If you’ve been following my notes on the legislative items of interest (to me) you probably have realized that no commentary from me means not much is going on. All of … Continue reading →

No, the trees here haven’t been mounting a DOS attack on critical infrastructure; instead the AJC has! The headline Pollen Count Over 8,000 Shatters Old Record for Atlanta brought the Atlanta Allergy and & Asthma Clinic website to its knees. … Continue reading →

I do a lot of data-intensive document production. It’s in the nature of my job that I have to look at a lot crash records and then boil it down into something that is useful. For example: This table represents … Continue reading →

As you are of course aware (because why wouldn’t you be?) the RPI Men’s hockey team has advanced to the second round of the ECAC tournament. We did so by beating rival Clarkson in three games. Now we play the … Continue reading →