SHOCKING!! The Liberal Media Hates Fraternities!!

Here's an argument I'm quite tired of:1. Kid who didn't like getting hazed comes forward and talks about it.2. Liberal media latches on and takes the story national in a wildly detailed editorial with basically zero fact-checking.3. Liberal media simultaneously points out that fraternity hazing is awful while also describing a laundry list of high-powered execs and politicians that came from fraternities.See what they did there? They pointed...

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The Greatest Time In Human History To Be An Engineer

Allow me to gush for a minute. Last week a rep came to visit me from a company called SolidConcepts. They are an industry-leading rapid prototyping company capable of producing...well just about anything. In the past they've made silicon-molded parts for me, and I wanted them to come meet with me and my boss to discuss a working relationship here at my new company. The rep outlined what they can make: high-quantity injection molded parts, low-quantity silicon molded parts, SLA parts (that is, parts made on a 3D printer) and now they can even print...

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Quick Notice

Any of you blog loyalists that live in KC, please pick up a copy of Saturday's KC Star. My column is in the Faith section, back page of FYI. It turned out to be a pretty controversial column, and I'm pretty proud of that fact.Thank...

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A Single Button, Ctd

One of the reasons I left my old company was that they were simply too honest. They didn't play the military-industrial corruption game very well, and suffered because of it. And they weren't large enough to buy Congresspersons. One of my old company's' niche specialties was in airborne particle detection, and as such we ran into pretty direct competition with this company. Except, we didn't get the daughter of our CEO placed as head of DARPA who then continued to fund the company even after the prototype failed miserably.Know hopelessnes...

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A Single Button, Ctd

A handy infographic. Found here. You can click to zoom in.So let me amend last week's final statement. Perhaps your tax contributions did not pay for a single button on a trillion dollar paperweight after all. Perhaps your tax contributions went directly to Lockheed, and then was turned into a campaign finance contribution to help re-elect friends of Lockhee...

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A Single Button

When your grandchildren see F-35 fighter jets streaking through the skies above our fair country, probably at air shows and hopefully not because we are conducting air strikes on our own soil, I want you to point up at the passing aircraft, and after the screaming of the engine subsides you can say to your grandkid: "there's a button, somewhere inside the cockpit of that aircraft, and my entire life's tax contributions paid for it." You and your progeny's progeny will walk amongst mothballed fighter planes throughout the air show: F-16s, A-10s,...

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Freddie

I found this resounding, powerful, disarming. Read i...

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iCar

I've had several conversations with my friend who is an open Apple Fanboy, and we've been discussing "what's next" for the company. Obviously future iterations of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad will happen. Indeed they are happening right now. But its tricky to imagine what the next major piece of hardware will be. The standard thought was that Apple invented the iPod, then added touch, which led to the iPhone, which then led to the iPad. But reading Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs reveals that the iPad was conceptualized and prototyped before the...

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3D Printed Organs

Do not waste another second on my blog. Go read this instead. Thank...

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