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End of FY-14: Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, September 21, 2014 Busy time of the year at E&I, September 30th is the end of our fiscal year. I must confess, I’m looking forward to a week’s vacation I have planned in October. I’m going out to California and will be meeting up with a lot of friends; […]
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Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, September 14, 2014 It is a very strange day. I sit here watching the American Football team; the Buffalo Bills and they are winning! They normally specialize in finding ways to lose. But then, the game is not over yet – Last week they played against the Chicago Bears […]
What is a Watt?
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, September 7, 2014 I recall my physics teacher (Kevin Conway, at the British School of Brussels) looking at me and saying: watt is a unit of power. Placed on the spot I was mentally sifting through possible answers. We had just learned about Volta and Ampere, so I knew […]
Muses
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, August 1, 2014 Jen has been bugging me for ages to write a note for the E&I newsletter, but there always seems to be something that takes a higher priority. Now I sit here at my desk with no internet. I’m not sure if it was the tremendous thunderstorm […]