Maybe it’s because I just watched the award-winning 2010 documentary Please Remove Your Shoes about the TSA. Or maybe it’s because I am qualified to use the TSA Precheck speedy line ( leave on your shoes and jacket, your… Read More ›
Work and Jobs
STEM and the Gender Gap
This afternoon I listened to an NPR Science Friday podcast from August 16. Hosted by Flora Lichtman, it was a discussion among several professional women about why, 40 years after Title XI was passed to help equalize education (not just… Read More ›
Friday Fun Flick! What I Do for a Living
Like most people, I have different circles of friends. Many of them I have met through professional contacts and are therefore in the same industry as me, but in the past few years, the bulk of my friends were met… Read More ›
Buying a Car in Papua New Guinea
As I’ve mentioned before, everything in this country is shockingly expensive, cars being no exception. Since there is no vehicle manufacturing industry here, all vehicles are imported in by ship. And for whatever reason, the government taxes the hell out… Read More ›
Government Publication Fun!
Working in developing countries, I get to read (and sometimes write) communications designed to inform the public. I like to collect some of the most amusing ones. Papua New Guinea abounds with little gems – a poster that tells you… Read More ›
Fine Dining in..Cotton Country Cafe
My company is negotiating with a potential business partner, which required me to make a trip to West Texas to look at the potential location for our project, a few miles outside of a very small cotton-farming community called Seagraves,… Read More ›
Vast Conspiracy against Women: A Lack of Pockets
I thought I was the only one who keeps her iPhone in her bra, but it turns out I’m not. Seriously, WTF is UP with these clothing manufacturers that don’t put pockets in women’s clothing? Especially business-type women’s clothing? I… Read More ›
Crappy Places to be from – Pecos, Texas
(Editors Note and Update, 1-6-15): After some rather nasty comments, which were sent off to Spam Hell, Co-blogger Kitty wrote a response: Pecos vs. Hillsborough: Crappy Places to Be From Smackdown! Last summer I spent a few miserable weeks working outside… Read More ›
VERY Important Things You Learn in Engineering School
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Dr X – My Misogynist Engineering Professor
Engineering: The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to… Read More ›
Two Different Girls 