Dream Rangers. When a Taiwanese Bank paid for a commercial that inadvertently sold more motorcycles than their own financial products.
Keep readingSent from an old engineering friend who wished to remain anonymous; he has a well-established history of being very cautious in making absolute statements but felt the need to speak out strongly on this subject. Shared with permission. ====== I know this is an unpleasant topic, but I’d like to revisit Fukushima and take a […]
Keep readingI’ve had the honor and pleasure of mentoring a few very bright & ambitious younger professionals in the past few years (something I recommend everyone 35-65 do at least once). Most of the mentoring comes in the form of “These are the details of a colossal and very expensive mistake I made when I was […]
Keep readingHave you ever had the experience of knowing someone who later on became a Big Shot, and find yourself wishing you were nicer to them/more involved with them, back when they were your peer? I know I have. Business idea: FAIR WEATHER FRIENDFINDER (FWFF). An app/social media scraper bot that constantly scans your friends, co-workers, […]
Keep readingFrom time to time, I dream of angels. I should be more precise: from time to time, in my dreams, I am visited by one angel – a hard-drinking woman of indeterminate age who identifies herself as my guardian angel, whose intense gaze lingers in waking memory like an afterimage in conscious moments. She made […]
Keep readingOne of the most powerful cinematic moments I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing will never been seen by most people because of its medium – a cutscene from a galaxy-spanning space adventure game called Mass Effect. This cinematic moment came up in a long conversation I had with Diane Meriwether on the topic on human […]
Keep readingSchrodinger’s Heart [noun] (SHRO·ding·ers HART) That moment of agonizing uncertainty during courtship while dating someone new – when you are certain you are in love with your paramour, but you have not received confirmation/certainty if that feeling is reciprocated. Like its namesake reference to the thought experiment from quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger involving a cat suspended in a […]
Keep readingLike many pre-adolescent boys before the age when I discovered girls, I had an obsession: The Giant Fighting Robot genre. Robotech, Gundam and Transformers were my gateway drugs to FASA’s Battletech universe. In addition to building an easy-to-learn war-fighting dice-based board game that was the centerpiece of the Battletech franchise, FASA created a richly-populated science fiction universe, complete with […]
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