Last week I took a complete, cold-turkey technology break and headed up into the Minnesota-Canada Boundary Waters via canoe, in the able company of my dear wife Mary and my youngest daughter Sarah. No email, no phone calls, no checking the weather radar — just the old standby maps and compass. Well, OK, [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Posted in Environment, technology on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
35W, Katrina, and the Dismal State of our Infrastructure
Posted in 35W bridge, Environment, Infrastructure, power grid, technology on August 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This post ought to be titled, “The Engineers Were Right, and the Politicians are Spineless Invertebrates,” but then people would complain that I’m just whining and casting stones because I’m an engineer. Well, I’m casting stones, but no whine here — I’m really frosted about this. I’ve driven that bridge too many times [...]