Archive for August 22nd, 2006

carrier thermidistat design – let’s put it in the category of needs to be fixed

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Back when I was a grad student and just about to finish up, the school of engineering turned a class of 60 freshman over to me to teach intro to numerical methods for engineers. I tried to liven things up by emailing the occassional engineering funny to my students who even reciprocated. The [...]

racial profiling for terrorism

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

I’ve heard and read a number of people saying “political correctness be damned, we should use racial profiling to identify terrorists.” The problem I’ve always had with this is that it makes no sense. Try the following test, identify the terrorist:

young muslim male
young muslim female
asian male or female
caucasian male or female
black male or [...]

a small request of the NC-DOT

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

I have a small request to make of the NC-DOT, if there are accidents on the interstate at I-40 and I-540 which backs traffic up 10 miles to NC-751, can we please, please make use of the expensive electronic information signs on the interstate to warn people?  There’s a difference between a small traffic slowdown [...]