An Engineer in DC

I noticed some odd behavior today.  The fact that it happened TWICE means I had to blog about it. Have we, as a collective society, forgot...

So, I posed questions a few days ago. 1.  If you go due east from Seattle, where do you hit the East Coast? ANSWER: New Brunswick.  Cana...

There's a chance I'll be making a trip to a small, northern Canadian town for work in the next year or so.  I looked it up on Google...

Norm Augustine is my hero. No, seriously -- if there is anyone who has significantly contributed towards making the world a better place t...

The Continuing Resolution (CR) that our government is currently under is really, really hurting the country, and it's not getting enough...

Everyone has a rant against the airline industry at some point or another.  This one is mine.  But I'm going to try to make an insightfu...

Shockingly, 2010 has come and gone.  This marks the technical end of the first decade of the 21st century (remember, since there was no Year...

One of the things I have not talked about enough on this blog is the insane highway intersections common throughout DC. Washington, DC doe...