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Stories about the Military, or working around them in Aerospace.
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- Government made the iPhone - Pelosi, "almost everything [in this] came from federal investments in research". The left thinks without government, there would be no iPhone. The truth is the opposite, without government we'd have commerce, but without commerce and people to tax, there is no government. Government is the parasite with delusions of grandeur.
- Martial Arts - These are just the basic philosophies of the east, or at least ones that I took from Martial Arts and influenced me, and the ways I look at things. Two different people using different mediums, skills, and different points of view, may believe the same core concepts, but the expression may be quite different.
- Military Acquisition Costs: why do things cost so much? - If you hear someone claim "that military screwdriver cost $500", or something like that, then you know that person is gullible, or a polemic. The truth is far more nuanced. When politicians get involved, bureaucracy will increase -- and those costs will be absorbed and passed on to the consumer. So you get what you pay for, and we're paying for political waste.
- NAAO: Security Clearance - My first Security Clearance was was amusing process. Mostly it was as exciting as filling out an IRS audit: a lot of DoD (Department of Defense) forms. I knew I was going to have problems, as my real-father was from Iran, I had multiple names, and had been an experimental kid (when it came to sex, drugs, and rock and roll - dumb life experiences weren't going to slip by me unexplored).
- Thor (Military) - The idea is that dropping spent uranium crowbars on people from space, has the energy of a small nuclear device. The idea is that dropping rocks on people we don't like is a great way to make them go away and show our displeasure.
- 1980 Brunswick Defense - My first aerospace contract was Brunswick Defensee. The bowling ball folks had a weapons division in Costa Mesa, and I worked on two wespons systems there (anti-runway missile and anti-bunker rocket) writing Quality Control Software. I wrote the controls/analysis software for the Lab/Test Equipment that did pressure or temperature tests to make sure the toys made Boom-booms only when expected.
- 1981 Ford Aerospace - The defense industry was hysterical, and there are so many stories to tell about these weapons systems. There were thousands of people, but it was a small industry with characters, and insanely funny programming mistakes in the way that non-life-or-death software can never be. Ford had a few of the best "gaffes".
- 1983-1986, 1994 Rockwell • North American Aviation (NAAO) - I started coming of age at NAAO, working on the B-1B Bomber (Lancer). I got my security clearance, learned to deal with eccentric co-workers, learned about nepotism, Corporate Politics is about more than just hard work, and how not to mix substance abuse and work, got "hit on" in front of my parents, and learned how NOT to exit a company.
- 1986-1988 Rockwell • Collins - After I left Rockwell, I went to work for Rockwell. I moved from Airplanes (NAAO) to Collins Radio and was working on the MILSTAR Satellite Communication Terminal: a system that was used for most of the secure military battlefield communications. Never have I worked with such a ragtag bunch of humans... and had the time of my life. It was a lifetime of experiences in 3 1/2 years.
- NAAO: Eccentricity and Aerospace - Aerospace in general, and Rockwell (NAAO) in specific (in 1983) was a strange place to work at times. There were many types of people there; nerds, lifers, a few interns, lots of managers, and a few genius eccentrics. Then there are some consultants that are temporary workers (treated like whores, and expected to produce while being ridiculed for making more than everyone else). Of the groups to belong to, I think I lucked out.
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