Political Correctness

I really liked this one folks.

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A few favorite quotes from the article as a tease to encourage you to read the whole thing :

Engineering solves problems. Innovation creates problems. Most innovation comes from people outside the domain of expertise. Innovators can be anybody.

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We think that this is the innovation age. Not so. We forget fish hooks, fire and the wheel. Twice as many patents were issued in the early 1900s as today. Distance, time and familiarity diminish importance.
My dad would talk to some of my visiting young MBAs. They would complain about the D.C. politics, the latest recession and tax laws. After they left, Dad would say, “Don’t they know this has happened five times before?”

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What does this mean to the working process engineer? We should not dwell on the latest standards and play in our sandbox. Putting change into a process because we want to try out the latest computer is not progress. We, as well as our management, should think about what we do and why we are doing it. Innovation is not just components, systems and toys. Innovation also is a part of how we think.

Joan Rivers, the irreverent, obscene, politically incorrect misanthrope got lost in the wilderness of plastic surgery, mink coats and diamonds after we went to rule the gossip airwaved from E!TV. I soOoOoOo missed the woman that so inspired me as a teenager back in the 80s. She and Phyllis Diller : OMFG! LOVE THEM. I am so a gay man trapped in the body of a woman.

Thank blog she she got sacked. Best thing that ever happened to her.

The old-school Joan is back with a vengeance in Joan Rivers: Before Melissa Pulls the Plug, part of the Bravo TVs new stand-up comedy series, Bravo's Funny Girls. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Geezus friggin crickes, nobody is safe from that woman --not even herself.

"I hate ugly people ... Who I hate more than ugly people? Old people ... Hate them!"

"The Bush daughters, all drunks ... Their desgnated driver. Teddy Kennedy Jr ... I hate them all".

"Monica Lewinski should be our role model ... Seventeen million dollars for going down on the president ... Does my daughter have 17 million dollars? Of course not ... It's all my fault ... I taught her to be good, to believe in God, to get an education... Stupid, stupid, stupid."