life experiences

The results of two more dinners from the local strip-mall Chinese joint: surprisingly good beef-and-broccoli, the opposite of fortunes in my cookies.

I was in 8th grade for the 1974-1975 school year. For some reason, my mother kept the 1975 edition of Comet, the yearbook of Ophelia Parrish Junior High School. I just re-discovered it.

Had to go to Air Care Colorado to get my car emissions checked. The experience was jarringly sloppy.

My lottery (PowerBall and MegaMillions) winnings so far in 2024: $0.00

Got these fortunes the last time I picked up chinese food at the local strip mall.

You can find some interesting grafitti on the east side of I-25, just south of exit 262 (Colorado 392, Windsor, CO) in Colorado.

It snowed at my place the night of October 29, 2023. The next day I saw the most Colorado thing possible.

Back when my kids were still young and innocent enough to want to go trick-or-treating, for a few years we went to some suburban friends cul-de-sac-filled neighborhood.

I ran across an engineering aphorism or principle called “Gall’s Law”:

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.