Commercial Items Identified on my Commute

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I see a lot of interesting commercialitems on truck on I-75. When you make the commute many times you start to see the same items over and over again. Sometimes it is huge equipment tires, sometimes heavy equipment of different types. I see these huge blocks of aluminum going North. I think about what the mill must look like and where it is going. And how much aluminum foil a block like this will make. Using the Tesla Full Self-Driving (supervised) allows me to look for these things on the highway. The FSD also helps me through the crazy stop and goes. Easily over 70MPH and then sudden traffic at dead stops, frequently. I see accidents every trip. It is amazing there aren't more. A side note- aluminum foil has a shiny side and a dull side. The reason why is that the foil is folded as it goes through massive rollers. The shiny side is the side that faces the steel roller. The dull side faces itself - aluminum.

Pervasive computing journal

I received my first copy of Pervasive computing yesterday. Interesting journal and of typical IEEE high quality.

I was invited to co-author a journal article in another journal this week, which I accepted. I was invited by a Physicist PhD to collaborate on an article describing how a special area of economics afflicts technical communications and the information industry. The foundation work was first published in 1967. The concept I would characterize as part of the body of the "Economics Way of Thinking." John Maynard Keynes describes this kind of thinking as an "apparatus of mind." I think the article will have some good life to it as it resonates through the community in which we are introducing it. Also this week, I was asked to contribute to a book (soon to be published) on the Toyota way as it applies to technical communication. I agreed. I will not have my name on the cover but I will be credited in the book. So this week seems to have the theme of being published. It is on my life list.

I have quite a bit of homework this weekend again. I am getting a lot out of the class.

The ducks are still very nervous. We are afraid they are going to hurt themselves when we feed them. We are talking to them to help them settle in.

Hopefully, I can find some time to mess around with some radio stuff this weekend.

I am taking next Tuesday off. I am going to a tool auction in Rochester. It might be a good one. You have to be very selective on the auctions you go to.

Here is a video for download that best describes Power Theory, referent vs. legitimate. (2 Meg, wmv)

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