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A great teacher has died.
Professor Gary Powers was more than a Chemical Engineer. The lessons he taught us at Carnegie-Mellon were about problem solving skills and how important it was to rely on our colleagues. He made us work as a team to solve the most difficult things he could throw at us, and taught us how to do it with precision, diligence, and most important of all style.
Within a few daze of the book coming out, I finished it. I won’t reveal any secrets (like Hermione being a boy – or was that “The Crying Game”?) and I won’t tell how it ends (but Harry and Voldemort plummeting over Reichenbach Falls was riveting). What I will do is outline my biggest complaints about the whole series
The time has come for serious change. The time is now to elect my cat, Tony, as President of the United States.
I realize that you may not think he is qualified. Well, the Constitution does not specify you can’t be 35 cat-years old. Tony was born in the woods of Wisconsin, probably in a barn. Think how the Abraham Lincoln log-cabin routine can be played out here.
I have been helping a friend do some construction on his home lately. The work has been mainly tiling and masonry to button up his home with inert construction materials that do not contain nasty chemicals like formaldehyde and isocyanates.
I had the great pleasure of sitting down for a few beers with people who are in politics as a profession or a significant hobby. If you have never met such people, you might be surprised by how they do things.
I know a lot of people like this in part because politics has been something of a hobby for me as well. Most of the people involved are hobbyists, which is my way of saying they have real skills that they never attempt to make a buck off of; it’s the fun of it that keeps them going.
