Somehow, all my travels were about beer.  Also light.  But beer.

I went to RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic) in Troy NY to the Lighting Research Center, and took a class about LEDs.  I learned some useful stuff, and some useless stuff, and did a bit of playing around.  I determined that hanging out with other people in the lighting industry is less fun, ( Read more... )

I was having a conversation last night, and the statistic came up that if you sit down at your desk in the morning, and stay for 4 hours, and go to lunch and sit at your desk for 4 more hours, to get 5 hours total of truly focused work is about average.  I definitely feel that way many days.  I've had worse days than that, too ( Read more... )