Control system instability

Remember the Dukes of Hazard? No, I mean the General Lee, not Daisy Duke! The General Lee was a 1969 Dodge Charger with a Hemi Orange paint scheme. I bought a brand new 1970 Charger R/T 440 in the same color (no, that’s not a photo of my Charger). Of course I got rid of […]

Heroism

Guy Kawasaki points out Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s article “The Banality of Heroism.”

The authors claim that our current definition of a hero is substantially watered down from its meaning of generations ago. Heroism used to encompass bravery, fortitude, gallantry, valor. Today we don’t think about the deep meanings of these words nor about how we […]

Stars and stripes

Karen and I have always been partial to red, white, and blue jerseys. For years we’ve talked about getting matching jerseys with a stars and stripes motif, but we’ve never found exactly what we wanted. We’ve found lots of jerseys with the right color combinations, but not quite the right patriotic flair.

Now Betsy, Karen’s […]