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  • Nostalgic Maturity

    ahhh blog. It's been so long. My dad and I started season 7 of The Waltons tonight, straight from 1978. This is the first episode after the Grandpa died, and they're all still missing him very noticeably. John (the fa…

  • Camp-Life Balance

    Several of us have just returned from a few or several days at church camp. According to the remarks I've heard, everyone enjoyed their time there, except maybe for the lack of a real bed. But now we have to go back to …

  • Arms' Length

    I put a status note on Facebook the other day saying that I was wondering who pays attention. That was a veiled reference to this topic. I've been mulling over how best to state this, and I think the best and safest wa…

  • Research and the Unknown

    So, I work in a research environment. More applied research than pure research -- but it's still research. I think one thing I might be learning about research is that it's messy and "fuzzy". One might think that in e…

  • Fun Work Quote

    "You can't really work hard if you're not having fun." - Shawn Johnson, world champion gymnast from West Des Moines, IA I like that quote. After writing my portion of my year-end review today, I think I find that quote…

  • Wisdom From the Past ("Missing Love")

    I was thinking about life (very generic way to say it), and I happened to click on the link to this old "Wise Thoughts" entry: http://joeclarkia.net/wisdom/missingLove.html. In some ways, it mirrors my current thoughts…

  • Make-Work

    Every once in a while I get this thought: What if a lot of the work we do (as engineers, as US workers, as humans in the world) is really just "make-work" or work that gets created just to give people something to do. …

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