At the 11th hour I realize a fatal technical flaw in my proposed solution. Damn! Couple hundred lines of Matlab simulation and too many hours of tweaking and playing to hit a road block like this. I could probably come up with a solution but at this late juncture the flaw is too glaring to continue without an elegant solution. Feeling sort of ( Read more... )

( Rambling rant about inconsiderate business practices )

So Yesterday in the mail we got a Census Notification in the mail. It tells us we are getting our Census Forms in the mail in the next week and we should fill it or we (our community) might not get our share of Federal funds. Good thing they mailed us that notification I'm sure we would have thrown the Census form out when it came if not for that ( Read more... )

So I just got off the phone with XM radio and I'm a bit annoyed. I turned off the radio that was in GFWTR old mini (an aftermarket radio). The new Mini has Sirius built in and so I don't need the second subscription with XM. The service rep though really really pushed the hard sell on either keeping that radio active or selling me a new one, ( Read more... )

<- Notice this is grumpy Troll as opposed to the geeky Troll in the previous post. :)

I have probably ranted about Tactical Reloads before but Tactical Reloads have always bugged me. What's a Tactical Reload? Well that it is, in a gun fight, reloading a weapon while retaining the partially used magazine in the gun for possible later use. Part of ( Read more... )

Until last week things at work where going pretty good. I was up to my eyeballs in some pretty gnarly multi-physics finite element analysis and was as happy as a pig in mud. Then starting last week all the unpleasant parts of being an engineer in a small company caught up with me ( Read more... )

...always seems to be like a knife fight between to fat dudes locked in a stinking phone booth with the knives starting on the floor[1]. :D :| :` Yeah ( Read more... )

keep them busy for a very long time. The past two weekend I have watch the Sci-Fi original movie late Saturday evening. Last week was Ogre and this week was Rock Monster. Wow are these bad. The story lines are passable but the acting and special effect ruin any mild merit the plot might have warranted. You would think the Sci-Fi channel could ( Read more... )

Day started good with a quick oil change (for the Element) and two donuts (for me). Work was going good (well) and I was actually doing engineering work. Thing(s) got gloomy when informed I was going to a small group lunch meeting with the company president but that turned out to be good news. Then just as the afternoon looks like it's going to ( Read more... )

Since getting a real job back in December of 2002 till recently I have probably spent more (likely much more) than the average consumer at the local Gander Mountain. Over the last year or so though their prices have been going though the roof and late last year they really put the screws to the consumer ( Read more... )