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The Age of Innocence
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 7, 2016 I got into engineering management at the age of 29. The first thing I did was to make the designs that I had put into production, obsolete. Hide the evidence – cover my tracks, no one could question the robustness of my designs, all that remained were […]
2016
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 5, 2015…err..2016 So how many times I wonder, am I going to write the year as 2015. How many times will I get frustrated with some on-line form that I fill in, as all the data is wiped out because I typed in the incorrect date at the […]
That Sick Feeling
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, January 4, 2016 There is nothing more that makes me sick to my stomach than when I get an e-mail, or one of my employees tell me, that one of our amplifiers has failed in the field. You may think I jest, but I do not. A feeling of […]
Lobotomy
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, December 23, 2015 I noted early in my career, in R&D, there would be times when someone would leave the engineering field and transfer into sales & marketing. All of a sudden, everything in their world became easier to accomplish. Those of us left, struggling to define design […]
Man Flu
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, December 16, 2015 I am suffering. Out of nowhere, I have been hit by an exceptionally strong strain of Man Flu. As I clutch to the fast fading embers of life, so I begin the process of getting myself ready to make peace with my maker. My wife plied […]
ISTU
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, December 15, 2015 Well the end of the year is galloping toward us. I’m heading south for the Christmas week, so I will not be having a ‘White Christmas’ – which is just fine by me; bah-humbug. But I’ll be back for the 1st and so bring in the […]
The Golden Snowball Contest
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, December 14, 2015 E&I is based in Rochester NY. As such, it is one of the contenders for the ‘Golden Snowball Contest’. Last year Syracuse won with a 132” total snow fall. Buffalo was third with 129” and Rochester 3rd with 112”. Rochester last won in the 2012-2013 […]
The Weakest Link
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, December 11, 2015 Do you remember the days when stereo systems were bought all as separate items? Do you know what I mean by ‘stereo system’? Well for those of you who don’t and just download your tunes on to your phone or player let me take you on […]
Communication
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, December 10, 2015 This certainly must be the age of mass communication. Don’t you think? In 1970 the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar debuted and in a song at the end of the musical, Tim Rice’s lyrics have Judas tease Christ with the lines: “If you’d come today you […]
The Winter of Our Discontent
Leave a CommentWritten by: Tony Harris, December 9, 2015 “Now is the winter of our discontent.” When Richard (the future king, Richard III) opens the play with this quote, it is actually not to protest the winter but to celebrate the summer and the upturn in his family’s fortunes. It is often misused. I hate winter, […]