Monthly Archives: August 2012
Cobb County Runoff Elections
Cobb County had a runoff election yesterday. Two important ones, actually: Commission Chair and District 4 Commissioner. Here are the results: Commission Chair Tim Lee 52.37% 14,309 Bill Byrne 47.63% 13,014 District 4 Commissioner Lisa Cupid 75.62% 3,065 Woody Thompson 24.38% 988 Tim Lee (the incumbent commissioner) squeaked by with a 1,300 vote margin. Woody …
Engineering Practice in Texas
As a part of my professional engineering continuing education, Im acquiring the one professional development hour of time in the category of ethics, as required by the State of Texas. While reviewing the board rules, I re-read the section on who may use the term engineer in their work life. In general, only licensed professional …
Brooks’ QR Code License is Revoked
Remember this post, wherein I decried the myriad bad uses of QR codes? Maybe this image will remind you? Well, after 37.5 miles we get this: Thanks for nothing, Brooks.
Artemis Helps Clean
The cats are always helpful when we’re cleaning things. Here Artemis is inspecting my t-shirt drawer. In the next one, I almost caught her whaling the crap out of Apollo. Pow! Right in the kisser.
Family Portrait
Minus Artemis and a wife who was ready for the photo.
New Vehicle Crash Test; Ouch
A new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash test is making me wince. If you watch the “small overlap test” video above, you can see most of the airbags doing absolutely no good because of the physics of the collision. I like my head. I like it to not bounce off car parts. Another thought …
Indoor Climbing
For my birthday yesterday we went indoor rock climbing at the Wall Crawler Rock Club in Atlanta. It was fun and reminded me how much I liked climbing when I was a teenager. All of the climbing I had done before was outdoor, in NH, so this was a switch. Much fun was had. John, …
Backup your Data yourself! Don’t trust the Cloud!
If you aren’t wired ((Ha ha!)) into technews, you may not be aware that the Wired writer Mat Honan has had his online digital life mangled and wrecked, which included a great deal of personal data on his laptop. The article is enlightening, but the bit I took out of it as most important is …
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Vacation Return Advice
Today’s advice is this: When returning from a vacation where one dropped a vehicle off at the dealer to be serviced, do not forget to pick it up before the next work day. Yes, Jenn is driving me there on the way to her work. Obvious lesson learned. Carry on.