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Why Do We Tolerate Representatives Ignorant of The Constitution?

by Byron Seastrunk | July 8, 2026 | General, New, Politics | 2 Comments

I freely admit I'm an intellectual snob. My wife is too, just in a completely different subject. I think if you can't calculate a 20% discount in your head, you have no business running around in public without a keeper. Likewise my wife believes if you don't know...

If You Own A Pennington 5 in 1 Pond Filter, You Need To Read This

by Byron Seastrunk | June 26, 2026 | Engineer, General, Married to an Engineer, New, Technology | 0 Comments

Every summer Mother Nature decides my pond should become a giant bowl of pea soup. The combination of blazing Texas sunshine and long days produces algae with the enthusiasm of a government spending program. Oddly enough, I now share a problem with our president. Mine...

On the Curious Obsession of Australian Shepherds With Tennis Balls

by Byron Seastrunk | June 20, 2026 | Animals, General, New, Technology | 1 Comment

This week I spent much of my time learning how to build and improve a script for ChatGPT to write fiction. I’m impressed by the results. Judging by the comments of two of my harshest critics, they were also impressed. Four stories, eight favorable comments from people...

Why Does A Five Gigawatt Data Center Need All My City’s Water?

Jun 11, 2026 | Engineer, General, New, Technology | 2 Comments

Five gigawatts of power is one of those numbers so enormous it’s impossible to make any sense of. A data center using five gigawatts is simply meaningless numbers to us. Developers, on the other hand, see the potential for huge profits without looking at the realities...

Why Put A TPMS On My Tractor? Blame An Engineering Algorithm

Jun 3, 2026 | Engineer, Married to an Engineer, New | 0 Comments

Unless you own an older John Deere tractor with a canopy, don’t expect this to provide detailed instructions on modifying your own tractor. On the other hand, if the title lured you in with the promise of peeking inside an engineer’s brain, welcome aboard. The odds...

Married To An Engineer: Change Is Inevitable, For You

May 23, 2026 | Engineer, Gaming, Married to an Engineer, New | 0 Comments

I have an agreement with my Wife, anything I publish involving her gets her approval first. Since this post is a result of a discussion she was having with a friend, not married to an engineer, about metrics and how marriage to me has changed her appreciation of...

Trust but verify. It’s more important than ever in the AI age.

May 16, 2026 | Engineer, General, Married to an Engineer, New | 0 Comments

Years ago, I led a team of exceptional engineers supporting production. A newly introduced product was averaging 30 hours to assemble instead of the 5 hours management had confidently estimated during one of their “everything is under control” meetings. We weren’t...

The Ticking Time Bomb Effect Of AI About To Destroy Our Society

May 7, 2026 | Engineer, Married to an Engineer, New, Technology | 2 Comments

Staring at my computer’s display, I’m watching a Python program run exactly to the specifications I wrote before I started coding. No debugging. No mysterious crashes. No three-hour hunts for a missing semicolon buried in line 1400. It just worked. And instead of...

Do Congressmen Understand What They Vote On? Seems Unlikely

Apr 29, 2026 | General, New, Politics | 1 Comment

Long ago, I came to terms with the fact that I don’t have the wealth or fame to move the needle on anything truly significant in this world. Not exactly a cheerful realization, but there it is. That hasn’t stopped me from tilting at windmills, I’ve logged plenty of...