Posts Tagged With ‘ Alan Cay Culler ’

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" u00a0House of Cards n We send holiday cards. My list includes people Iu2019m only in contact with once a year so I usually include a little handwritten note with some news. Not always; I sometimes run out of steam. So Iu2019ve learned to start at the u201cAu2019s one year and the u2018Zu2019s the next so people at least get a note every other year. I never written the typed holiday epistle with all the events for the entire family for the year like my... Continue Reading

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Kid stuff n Iu2019ve been reading Aesopu2019s Fables. Most of us read some of Aesopu2019s stories as children: the conceited hare so impressed with his own speed that he took many diversions and even a nap and so lost the race to the slow but steady tortoise. This left us with a message to u201cFocus: the race isnu2019t always to the swift.u201d n Maybe we laughed at the fox who having tried in vain to achieve a goal, jumping as high as he could to grab... Continue Reading

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Consulting Wisdom from Unusual Places n Is Consulting Wisdom an Oxymoron? n Hey Newbie, Listen up! n So You Want to be a Consultant? n Traveling the Consulting Road. n Almost six years ago I retired from consulting after thirty-seven years and I hatched a plan. I would write -first on LinkedIn, then on other social media platforms. I would share what I had learned so far in my life and maybe I might save others from making the same boneheaded mistakes... Continue Reading

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" A Tale of Two Towns n To the hawk the two lands were not far. A few hours of hard flight perhaps, but with many updrafts for circling and trees on even the tallest ridges if the winds were not right and a rest was required, it could be pleasant. It was a flight the hawk took often, more in the summer than in the winter. There was good hunting for the hawk in the mountains. Even in winter, the rabbits and voles did not expect him. n For people in the two... Continue Reading

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" A Rant n Iu2019m not really a rant-kinda-guy, no really, Iu2019m not. . . n Whined the wishy-wash writer-wrestling with what the wrecked-world hath wrought . . . n Resistance is futile . . .a least, . . . thatu2019s what u201ctheyu201d say . . . n So ranters gonna rant, rant, and rant, and u00a0I guess thatu2019s me . . . today . . . n Yeah . . . n This is a rant u2013 the ramblings of an old brain, retired from the rotation of the rat-wheel, writing,... Continue Reading

I wrote a rant to post this week. Then Dennis reposted a BizCat article I wrote six months ago where I was genuinely asking what we might start doing  about the “Problems of the World.” It was written by my less-cynical self, who grabbed my grumpy-old-man self-by the proverbial lapels, shook me,  and said “Dude, can’t you be a little more positive – It’s Thanksgiving week!” Thanksgiving – gratitude, gratefulness, thanks, counting our blessings, appreciation – thanking our lucky stars, appreciativeness, grace, respect, love, giving. This week in these United States of America,... Continue Reading

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" The times they are a-changinu2019 n My father and mother were born in 1904 and 1908 respectively. In 1988 I interviewed them with a cassette recorder and I just found the tape. I had to scramble to find an old Walkman to listen to it. It was strange to hear their voices as they passed more than twenty years ago, but their answer to one question still amazes me. n u201cYou folks have seen so much technological change in your lifetime, what change had the... Continue Reading

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" First independent project interviews n u201cI told u2019im u2018You know, Bob, youu2019re not the only one with an engineering degree!u2019 u2018Nu2019 thenu00a0 he said, u2018Oh, thatu2019s right, Paulee, I forgot, you got a diploma from Steveu2019s college in New Jersey!u2019 Everybody laughed ou2019course, but I never forgot that. I mean, Stevens Tech is a very well respected MechE, better than CMU on some lists. All right I donu2019t have a masters... Continue Reading

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" n n I already wrote about my strange obsession with the Celts, a European Bronze Age and Iron Age people u00a0dominant between 700 BCE and 77 CE. In 51 CE, Julius Caesar u201cpacifiedu201d Gaul. The first slaughter of druids on Anglesey (Mona) in Wales the home of the last druid u201ccollege,u201d came in 61 CE by Suetonius Paulinus. Then he got to feeling like Julius.. Paulinus chose to ignore the treaty with the Iceni that established right of succession... Continue Reading

<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Will, Marne, and Surance n When William Wehn was younger he left his parents farm. Will was the third son and knew his brothers would inherit the small family plot. William travelled, working where he could, mucking out some farmers barn, helping bind and thresh wheat from anotheru2019s field. n Will was a good worker. His employers often suggested he come back through for next yearu2019s harvest and Will often promised that he would, but he seldom did.... Continue Reading