Category: General

Please help me celebrate my 55th and the nation’s 239th birthday today, please enjoy my fireworks this evening, and stay safe.  The following fun facts were distributed in my work’s daily email blast, “Morning Java” on 2015-07-02.Fun FactsIn July 1776, the estimated number of people living in the newly declared independent nation was 2.5 million.When…

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof.  Therefore, in any argument/project, examine the assumptions.E.T. Bell

Jill and I were talking over dinner about the ending of the FX Series Justified.  Jill wondered if Marshal Raylan Givens would go to Florida, and I predicted that he would be killed and that Boyd and Ava Crowder would walk off into the sunset.What I didn’t say, and just thought of was that they…

Today is the first anniversary of the Oso, Washington landslide at 48.285092, -121.850344.  The slide occurred Saturday, March 22, 2014, at 10:37 AM local time.

For every 2-3 minutes of positive feedback employees get, they get 3,000-4,000 minutes of negative feedback.  We can do better as supervisors.That’s my goal.

For those of us who learned Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in college, I learned about another model, SCARF (Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness).

Two-thirds of the people who died of hypothermia in Wisconsin were men, and their average age was 66, the report said.  About one in five were intoxicated, subsequent toxicology tests determined.  The average outdoors temperature at the estimated time of death was 6 degrees Fahrenheit, public health officials found.Read more at: philly.com