Words of Darkness, Blog of Light

The distance between insanity and genius is measured in success.

It was nearly dark as I left work today.  Heading home, I turned the truck west on the Albion highway and drove into the sunset.  As the rippling fire of red, orange, and purple stretched across the clouds, I was immediately relieved as I reminded myself that such things are no longer my responsibility. When [...]

The following is based on an instant messenger chat I had with Ben Walden, a big Alaskan soccer player who works in Engineering programming the interface and buttons for our instruments at Decagon Devices, Inc. in Pullman, Washington. I could kick a ball a quarter mile back in 1983.  I think it was a Mitre [...]