Mea Vita: Carpe Diem

Customer service is a pet peeve of mine. There's no way for a business to never have a problem. But, what a company does to address the ...

1st Grade, Silas Wood, Huntington Station, Long Island 42 years later, in the Hamptons. Top: 1st grade at Silas Wood  Elementa...

The lip (red arrows) wrapping around the sink looks like styling, but it isn't. Good design is apparent. Great design is transpa...

The most popular database is Excel. Knowledge workers use Excel spreadsheets as simple, non-relational databases more often than as an a...

I had two misconceptions about military retirement when I was a young buck, probably because I’m not a military retiree. My first miscon...

Boolean algebra was invented by George Boole in the mid-1800s, long before binary numbers had any practical purpose. While binary, which ...

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci The Marines and Apple have been the biggest influences in my professiona...

How does someone end up on the streets? There are many different reasons such as abuse, drugs, loss of a job, and mental health issues. Ov...

Since the election, I've been trying to better understand President-Elect Donald Trump. What I heard as his promises on the campaign t...

Only clear bags allowed. Last night, I went to a basketball game at UCLA. Women were prevented from entering the arena with any opaque b...