Detritus of Empire

Wandering unsupervised in various real and imaginary places. Detritus reflects my interests in robotics, travel, history and the odder aspects of the world around me.

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Monday, November 14, 2016

Machines Behaving Badly - 2016 Edition

And so another Machines Behaving Badly tournament is in the books. It was a good one. It may have been our best one ever. It started on t...

Friday, November 11, 2016

My Dad's New Neighbors

It had been a while since I had gone to see my dad. His funeral was in January. This was my first visit since then. It was an odd experi...

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Tree Shaped Tombstones - New Lisbon, Wisconsin

A nice example from New Lisbon Wisconsin. Liking that owl on top. With a common name such as this - H. King - it is hard to say a lot ...

Monday, November 7, 2016

Fish Wrapper Blues

I am showing my age here but I still have a smidgen of nostalgia for authentic, dead tree, delivered to your front door newspapers. Ther...

Saturday, November 5, 2016

Perfection in an Imperfect World

I rarely venture into political discussions here. I have my opinions, others have theirs and the Internet hardly seems a place where though...

Friday, November 4, 2016

Solid Work on the Beach

I have had fun learning Solidworks, the high powered 3D modeling program that enables you to virtually create almost anything. I have dabbl...

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

80/20 Plus a Bumper Crop of Good Ideas

In the "pre-season" before FIRST Robotics really gets going we do get the team together once in a while. On a recent Saturday we...

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Tacitus: Having over the many years of my medical career seen too many hard working folks post pone retirement and tip over shortly after their farewell party I have adopted a Carpe Diem policy. Retire at 60. And don't let 'em throw you a party. Its working so far.

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