“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.” — Mark Twain Anymore, despite knowing that they cannot believe much of what they read or hear there, most people get their news from the internet. If not there, then the evening news or cable news. When it comes to [...]
“That’s why kings send ambassadors. This way, if someone gets captured, the king is still safe. We, my friend, are something Elend can never be: expendable.” — Brandon Sanderson When OSHA was first developing the Process Safety Management (PSM) standard (29 CFR 1910.119), there was a growing practice in the chemical process industries of contracting [...]
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking Beginning in March 2020, the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) began requiring that all facilities report all significant chemical releases. That way, they didn’t have to rely on media reports to know what was happening. After a slow start, [...]
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that you can’t wear white after Labor Day. But why?” — Anna Cafolla and Elise Taylor, Vogue Magazine There are few things more foolish than asking an engineer for fashion advice. But I have heard since I was a little boy, mostly from the girls and women in my [...]
“I have to buy three of everything. It doesn’t make any sense, but I have to. I’m worried I might lose it, and if I lose it, then I have a backup and then I have a backup to my backup.” — Huda Kattan I was travelling this week and while at the airport, I [...]
“I found that the recipes in most – in all – the books I had were really not adequate. They didn’t tell you enough…I won’t do anything unless I’m told why I’m doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of these recipes, it should turn out [...]
“I think the coop should be held financially responsible to all the residents that were evacuated and cover all costs in the deployment of all emergency personnel!!! A thousand dollars or better per household!!! Payable by the end of next week!!!” – Ron Follis, commenting on the Lincoln County Emergency Management Facebook post Shortly before [...]
“This hour I tell things in confidence. I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.” — Walt Whitman I once worked at a plant that produced performance chemicals. Performance chemicals are sold based on what they do rather than what they are. The key specifications are the performance specifications, not the composition specifications. [...]
“That’s what insurance is for, right?” — Liam Dai (and thousands of others) There was recently a fire at a popular business in south Saint Louis city that was widely reported on the local news. As with many fires that happen here in Saint Louis, someone set up a GoFundMe fund to help the business [...]
“You know you are getting old when everything hurts, and what doesn’t hurt doesn’t work.” — Hy Gardner A few weeks ago, we posted a blog about the need for increased maintenance, testing, and inspection on equipment that has aged past the constant failure rate period of the bathtub curve into the wear-out period of [...]
