It seems that people are still struggling with time management in the engineering industry. We're still burning people out and driving them to quit engineering for friendlier pastures. To be fair, 'time management' doesn't even seem an accurate or appropriate term for … [Read more...] about Burning Out
Weird Ways to Stop Tantrums
There is many a time when a child is in tantrum mode, and it can be difficult to get them excited for a situation that even I find boring. Here are some interesting stories that others have found useful in their lives. Last winter, I took my daughter skiing for the first … [Read more...] about Weird Ways to Stop Tantrums
What To Do When You Don’t Care
I am at a point in life where I just don't care, and I don't know what to care about. Therapy sounds like the preferred option, but I just can't do it for a third time if the first two didn't work. I recently wrote about “knowing what you want” — the struggle most of … [Read more...] about What To Do When You Don’t Care
The Top Three Things All-Seeing Fathers Do To Raise Successful Heirs
I wish I could write something like this, but it makes complete sense. All credit really belongs to the author, Dan Hon. Not a day goes by without a mortal asking me: Odin, how is it that Norse gods and goddesses raise such successful, beautiful and physically strong … [Read more...] about The Top Three Things All-Seeing Fathers Do To Raise Successful Heirs
Jungle Rally Racers
The current Souvenir promotion from Geocaching.com at the moment is "You might be a geocacher if ..." and we are into the fourth souvenir, the Trackable Lover. Clearly they want us to put more trackables out there and have them moving around. So for this month, I have … [Read more...] about Jungle Rally Racers
Weekly Reads 14
Other People Don’t Belong To Us We tend to attach ourselves to people.On the one hand, relationships and human connection are part of what makes life so wonderful. But on the other hand, we bastardize it, running it into the ground and ruining it before it’s even had … [Read more...] about Weekly Reads 14
Weekly Reads 13
How You Know It Isn’t Love Here are about a dozen ways to tell. Behind the White Coat So much of medicine depends on maintaining silence. Doctors are told secrets, taught over a period of years how to respond. The expression on a face transforms “stranger” into … [Read more...] about Weekly Reads 13
Catchment Delineation
With QGIS GRASS GIS - r.fill.dir to reduce the depressions within the TIN Elevation = Single Tin Output aspect direction format = grass Region Extent = Default Cellsize = Depressionless DEM = [Temp] | Open output Flow Direction = [Temp] | Open … [Read more...] about Catchment Delineation
Weekly Reads 12
The Complete Guide to Overcoming Gymtimidation The first time I walked into a gym was around fifth grade, to lift weights with my middle school cheerleading squad. Thirty years later, the gym is like home to me. The sights, the sounds and — lord help me — even the smells are … [Read more...] about Weekly Reads 12
Fly the Plane
1 - Aviate, Navigate, Communicate In the aviation world, this is a common approach to all flying situations, especially emergency conditions. Aviation studies have found that pilots get so focused on solving a problem in an emergency that they sometimes forget to fly the … [Read more...] about Fly the Plane