Category Archives: engineering

Anatomy of impending doom

Evolution of a doomed conversation…

Oh, the demo… its a quick informal thing… think of it as an opportunity to show off your prototype work. Just show what you have…
Oh, its now a formal demo… handful of customer reps… no big deal
Oh, its just three demos… And by the way, how much extra functionality […]

as the world turns, the apple still falls down

I’m a little late on this one, but we’re still in the middle of this entire mess. Let me first make a few points very clear…
I can think of no company in my lifetime that has undergone the turn around that Apple has. Going from a fringe computer manufacturer that make overpriced […]

GPS AEP now operational

Last week the Air Force transitioned to the new AEP ground station software that I had been working on at Lockheed for the last 4 years. The transition went smoothly which is really a testimate to everyone that slaved away to make sure everything worked. And this really was hard… the tried […]

the scale of

…this is incredibly impressive.

beautiful engineering

Its actually fairly rare that you can call engineering beautiful. Engineering can produce beautiful things, but the widget or construction itself doesn’t often come to mind. However, you must check this out. A new bridge in France that is really breath taking. We’ll ignore the question of “why” for a moment […]