(This post was started sometime in October, 2007. I’ve completed it in March, 2008, but altered the timestamp to indicate its approximate date of conception). I’ve just finished reading Charles Darwin’s first major book, Voyage of the Beagle. This is an account of a 5
When I started my career some 21 years ago as a junior engineer at a technology company located in Connecticut, the standard work attire consisted of a button-down shirt, dress slacks, shined leather shoes, and a tie. Most of the employees wore an undershirt beneath
This is a phrase I’ve heard with increasing frequency in my career as an optical engineer, usually coming from the mouth of a manager with an engineering background. The context is typically either the beginning of an investigation into the cause of a significant anomaly,