Turn the collonpicker off!!!

I am appalled and non-plussed. When I was young just before plywood fighter planes started flying circles around the metallic products of Grumman Aircraft, our knowledge of Japan was largely of cheap knick-knacks made very cheaply. After almost four years of warfare, we put mushroom clouds over Hiroshoma and Nagasaki and a military surrender occurred; Japam rebuilt their tattered infrastructure and began building economical cars. Americans believed Consumers Union's opinion that these cars were safe and reliable and bought them by the millions rather than the Detroit product. Now, we seem to have a rumor that many of the products of Toyota go berserk and run into things on their own. One cannot help remembering the old witticism that part of the car causing the most accidents is the "nut that holds the steering wheel". It is not really believable to me the canny engineers who first built the Zeroes at Mitsubishi have totally lost their way. Maybe they should just borrow some news spinners to mostly close Pandora's box and bring people to take my advice at the top of this blog, find and fix the credible problems. As a native of Michigan Who has received a hug from the present junior Senator from the state, I control my political chauvinism, admit the world has become a world-wide market and urge that we educate our youth to learn how to contribute in it.

Staying Humble-- Are Numbers Important??

As I begin this chapter , this blog has total of two(2) confessed readers. By comparison, a glance at my Facebook entry makes reference to my #1 son. a handsome dude who was an Ultimate Frisbee jock of international reputation, has acted in vicdeos in Japan and writes a column discussing strategy for th Japanese version of Mahjong. Today's Facebook entry reports that some 43,000 hits have been made on his entry. In contrast,my blog has a total of two(2)confessed followers. Yours truly published a technical book "Circuit Design for HIgh Frequencies and Microwaves" and sold perhaps 500 copies worldwide. The kid published several paperbacks to teach California vernacular to the Japanese and sold almoest a million of the first one. To make a fair comparison, he may have earned less on that one book than I did on mine. Still, it does keep a guy humble. That's all for now, folks.

Why hiatus?

Well, after almost two months, I must say rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. So I sit down at my remorseless punisher of fickle fingers. There have been complications; I am trying to get a new(to me) printer on the air, but the design is almost 7 years old and there are no drivers that work for Windows Vista and eventually I decided to upgrade to Windows 7 which is cheap enough with academic discount but the next issue is 32 bits or 64, and I found out that my computer is expecting 64, but I still do not have the two machines communicating. It is enough to make a bookish kid grown old to wonder if his life would be more satisfying had he served time with the blacked out keys in the typing room on the top floor of "The Old Brick School" in Northport, MI.