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Monsoon Season
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July 14, 2012
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July 14, 2012
It’s monsoon season.
We’ve been in Arizona for more than 40 years and it’s always been called that.
Light Strikes
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July 13, 2012
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July 13, 2012
The hammer hits the firing pin and that hits the primer, but it doesn’t go bang.
In the Deep End and Sinking
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July 11, 2012
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July 11, 2012
My job is to help customers use my employer’s product to build ultra-high reliability computer software such as that used to autonomously fly drones or to automate much of a real pilot’s interaction with, for example, the Boeing 787 over which he/she is in the left-hand cockpit seat.
Cleaning Process
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July 5, 2012
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July 5, 2012
It’s the process as much as the product. And by that I mean when, how much and where the product, any product, is used.
Jury Nullification
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July 4, 2012
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July 4, 2012
No one can take away from you the fierce independence of what you think.
What’s In A Smell?
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July 3, 2012
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July 3, 2012
It is a tradition that wives and then children take on the father’s surname.
Annual Review and Pep Meeting
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July 2, 2012
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July 2, 2012
In the movie, THX-1138, Robert Duvall’s character escapes the underground society because the cost of his pursuit goes over-budget.
House Cleaning
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July 1, 2012
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July 1, 2012
Backed up the blog, updated WordPress, the twenty-eleven theme and the plugins.