Monday, a Maybach... Yesterday, an Aston Martin. Today, horses! I'll try to spot a Segway tomorrow... :-) Stephen … [Read more...]
Archives for 2011
A hypothetical conversation in London, 1864
I have lifted and edited this from "Petronius" on another site: http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/2011/Q1/mail668.html Last night (28 March 2011), the President addressed the nation on the Libyan action. Imagine if this parallel conversation had happened in London in July of 1864... "Gentlemen, it is a Humanitarian Catastrophe that … [Read more...]
Aston Martin at Waffle House
Yesterday a Maybach, today an Aston Martin. Just another day in Technology Square! … [Read more...]
Maybach at Waffle House
Technology Square at Georgia Tech has a really spiffy Waffle House. Check out the customers it attracts! … [Read more...]
TAG Badges
I think the ribbons on my badge form the flag of a small African country. … [Read more...]
Introducing IPaT
We trained hard... but it seemed everytime we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to treat any new situation by reorganization and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiences, and demoralization. --Petronius … [Read more...]
Roosevelt House Implosion
MVI_4102a.mov Watch on Posterous Former Atlanta Housing Authority building on North Avenue adjacent to Georgia Tech is imploded early Sunday morning, 27 February 2011. The explosions were heard more than a mile away. … [Read more...]
North Avenue implosion
North Avenue implosion: Cops just moved us up the hill, halfway to the Interstate via twittelator … [Read more...]