Jim Medding’s Blog

Having cleaned up a few messes myself during my career, I can really identify with this quote.

A lifetime in engineering gives you a very good antenna. It also cures people of any self belief they cannot be wrong. You clear up a lot of messes during a lifetime in engineering. I could be wrong on global warming – I know that – but the guys on the other side don’t believe they can ever be wrong.

David Holland in The Telegraph

There is no theorem that says the interesting things in the world are conserved, only the total of everything.

Richard Feynman, Cornell University lecture “The Conservation Principles” (#3), 1964

It’s Pi day!

“How does one celebrate Pi Day?” you might be asking.

Put Pi on your socks, obviously.

We’ve all seen them – “international” icons used to communicate a message without using written words. Some work and some don’t.

Since moving into a new building at work, I’ve been puzzled about the icon used to communicate evacuating the building during a fire. It just didn’t seem quite right. I though more about casually dancing down the stairs than about fleeing a burning building.

Care to cha-cha-cha your way out of the building?

No thanks, “aaaah , runaway!” seems more appropriate for the moment.

Then, I found an icon in an older building.

Yep, that’s it.