Imagine the terror of plummeting 63 feet into the Mississippi for a moment. The bridge underneath you has given you a few moments of warning as it pitched to one side, and then you are suspended in the air before that sickening splash. The water comes in as you know this is it. If you are conscious, you probably have only enough time to panic as you start to realize this is the end.
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Heat
The heat of August is pooling around us, forcing us to swim more than walk though its heaviness. Every day this goes on is a bit more oppressive than the last, each push past the open door into the thickness a new struggle. Someday, soon, there will be a thunderstorm to wring out the atmosphere like a towel. But not yet.
“Illegal”
The latest dust-up regarding immigration has lasted for several months. It seems to be a bit longer than the last several times that this has come up. Does that mean that something will come of it, something useful and reasonable?
I doubt it.
Prof. Powers
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.
Conveyance
In a steel and glass cage moving at 80 miles an hour, time passes slowly. But time is the only tangible sensation you can count on.
I have spent too much time in a car lately going from one point to another. What I find most remarkable about the way I relate to these places is that I go precisely from one point to another. In between I am in the car. I am never particularly in one place at any time, but simply in between. Travel is always this way. I am either here or there, or in transit. The conveyance of travel connects time and space through a simple ratio of average speed.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 