Brain Scat

I was driving through a small town in Washington today when I spotted a billboard with a quote on it.
I looked at it for all of the three seconds it took to drive by it, but the quote on it caused it to stick in my head.
It said (something very close to): “Tolerance is the [...]

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Let’s talk about interviews.  Or, for the purpose of this story, two interviews and what we can learn from them.
Interview 1: Red Flags and You
The first interview was for a job somewhat outside my area of expertise, but I saw it as a subset of what I do as an Engineering Manager.  The job was [...]

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This one is certainly not my own. I ran across a post on Instructables about making your own bookmarks from scrap wood.
Lacking the appropriate scrap wood, I picked up some 2×2 lengths of hard wood, oak and alder perhaps? Probably $7 in wood. Then I cut my own blanks, cutting the stock [...]

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