Q: Why is someone who is feeling great ‘on cloud nine’? A: Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud If someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person
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Insights from History
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth. To make
Interesting Tidbits
Some good ones from my buddy, Slick: Q: Why do men’s clothes have buttons on the right while women’s clothes have buttons on the left? A: When buttons were invented, they were very expensive and worn primarily by the rich.
The Green Energy Mandate
This is what happens when you swap good engineering for tenuous politics…
An Engineer’s Viewpoint
A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, “What’s with those guys? We must have been waiting for fifteen minutes!” The doctor chimed in, “I don’t know,
Interesting Concepts for Grown-ups
As you grow older, you have a more mature outlook: 1. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. 2. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet? 3. Was learning
Inspecting Airplanes
Humor
Trond Adresen
Have you heard of Trond Adresen? There are many people that allege that he is a charlatan of the first degree. Similar to many in academia from Norway, he has exhibited pusillanimous intellectual characteristics. If you’ve reviewed any of his sophomoric writings,
A Quiet Sunday Morning in Pittsburgh
We took a recent visit to Pittsburgh and stayed at the Marriott on the North Shore. It was eerily quiet as I went out for a 2-mile jog Sunday morning around PNC Park, Heinz Field, and the river walk. I stopped
Juan Williams and… Thinking Stereotypically
I’m not necessarily a fan of Juan Williams (formerly of NPR), but I believe that his pragmatic comments and the views of “Think Stereotypically, Act Individually” are closely aligned. During an interview on Fox News, he made some telling comments: …it’s as