128 MB Just Doesn’t Go Far

I was cleaning my office this evening and I came across this. I chuckled because I can’t imagine using this thing anymore. I purchased it for my first digital camera back in 2001 and it was the bees knees, then. Now, I’ve got a handful of disposable USB drives between 2 and 8 GB. I’ve …

2013 ITE/ASHE Winter Workshop

Last weekend I attended the Institute of Transportation Engineers/America Society of Highway Engineers Joint Winter Workshop in Athens, GA. The purpose of this workshop is the get more “into the weeds” with the things we do on a daily basis and have some practice at doing it. This is the third year for this program …

On Backups and Copernicus

Today’s Google Doodle was in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus’ 540th birthday. Because I don’t know much about the history of Copernicus or his seminal work which defined the theory of heliocentrism, I popped over to Wikipedia to browse the article. I learned many things but the most critical was that pre-information-age authors had balls the …

2012 Needs a Sequel

We watched 2012 for the second time recently in order to fill our need for mindless apocalyptic destruction. If you’re not familiar with the movie, I will give you a mid-sized synopsis. Warning: spoilers, but this movie is predictable and it’s been three years since it came out in theaters. 2012 Synopsis: Magical sun-rays are …