Family Life

The temperature was in the mid 20s today, a beautiful, clear, sunny day (normal for this time of year is about 10

Barrel of Monkeys: a hyperbolistic idiom referring to good-natured pandemonium (from Wikipedia). In this case it’s a box of boys. It’s always pandemonium. It’s sometimes good-natured. But in our household it is never hyperbole. Debbie took this photo. Note the skill of the photographer in getting all three boys to look at the camera at [...]

I tell you, it’s like watching grass grow. I got in to work this morning to an email from a customer. A good customer. They were having a problem with their newest machine, and were producing 50% scrap. That’s a lot of manufactured products to be throwing out. They weren’t particularly worried about the bad [...]

I spent today at a Fanuc robotics event in the interests of expanding work’s horizons. It was a combination of PowerPoint presentations, a dozen or so industrial robots furiously working away in a big warehouse, and lots and lots of food. It was a well-catered event. There were robots painting, robots welding, robots sorting parts, [...]

A week ago I took some photos of all the parts that go into a gearbox (you can read that post here). Today they put the gearbox together. It looks a lot simpler when it’s a single, whole unit. I took some photos before they put the covers on. Here you can see the worm [...]