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Hot Mat Pilates and The Shroud of Turin
Hot Mat Pilates and The Shroud of Turin

As I am getting up there in years it has become harder and harder to get enough exercise, well at least it has become easier and easier to talk myself out of it.  Taking long walks in the mornings are a real non-starter, especially when it is cold and dark outside. After work has always been the go-to time to get some form of exercise, but lately

May 27, 2025
Milestones. Or, How Pulseroller Hit 1 Million ConveyLinx Sold While I Chased My Next Left-Handed Guitar
Milestones. Or, How Pulseroller Hit 1 Million ConveyLinx Sold While I Chased My Next Left-Handed Guitar

Life, both personally and professionally, is filled with milestones.  Life’s “firsts” often make up these milestones; some good and some bad: 1st Grade, 1st Love, 1st Breakup, 1st Car, 1st Job, 1st Layoff, 1st Marriage, 1st Left Handed Guitar.  I could go on.

February 12, 2025
Safety Integrity Level, ConveyStop, and Acronym Soup
Safety Integrity Level, ConveyStop, and Acronym Soup

Safety for industrial equipment, which includes automated material handling equipment in general and conveyors in specific can be a confusing and rather daunting topic. Not complying with safety standards generally provokes word associations in our brains such as “bad”, “dangerous”, and “liability”.  This last one often gets the

December 17, 2024
The Shape of Things to Come
The Shape of Things to Come

I believe in some ways I was a normal kid growing up - perhaps in other ways, not so much. One of the “normal” things that was more or less universal to kids was an attraction to cool looking sports cars. As a young teenage male; cars were something you could relate to with your buddies even if they had no clue what an odd time signature was on

May 21, 2024
"Black is the New Blue"
"Black is the New Blue"

My musical experience and exposure during the growing up years at least through high school did not include much of The Rolling Stones. That was until I moved into a dorm freshman year at college. The guy next door in the dorm was a Stones and Beatles fanatic and had the largest record collection I had ever seen.

March 20, 2024
The Weird Christmas Year Part 3 - The Final Chapter
The Weird Christmas Year Part 3 - The Final Chapter

Continued from Part 2...Dec 26th-Dec 29th: My daughter had to work all week beginning on the 26th, so I was stuck at her apartment with no car and no good idea on what to do. My wife did make it on the 26th and took an Uber from LAX, so then we were both stuck. The all Star Trek channel helped, but it was not really “something to do”.

January 18, 2024

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