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To Myers-Briggs I'm an INTJ on the cusp of an E. A war-orphan, I was raised an only child by my mother. Born into a family of engineers and inventors, I naturally gravitated to engineering; model railroading at age 5. By the time I left high school the railroad was well automated (back when mechanical relays and vacuum tubes prevailed.) Home was Gary, Indiana and while attending Purdue University I majored in Electrical Engineering, worked part-time and summers as a motor inspector at the Inland Steel 80" Hot Strip, where I found the air conditioning requirement of early automation equipment to be personally beneficial. I joined the DuPont Corporation as a Design Engineer and moved to Waynesboro, VA. (where in 1969 I automated the 1929 Acetate Chemical process using a Digital Equipment PDP 8E computer supervising five PDP14 industrial controllers -- the computer was programmed using a Teletype machine and paper tape!) I also had the pleasure of an assignment in Londonderry NI in 1973 followed by a move to Charleston, SC in 1976 to construct a fully automated polyester fiber facility (complete with industrial robots). But enough about me...

Friday, November 04, 2005

Practicing What We Preach

We experienced an unfortunate event during the early morning hours this past weekend. The locks on two of our company vans were smashed and a quantity of hand and power tools, and test equipment were stolen. The police case is open and an investigation is underway so I'm not in position to discuss details although I will share this: Neighboring businesses also have surveillance in place and have been most cooperative. Suffice it to say that video surveillance evidence, now in the hands of police investigators, has captured identifying details of the vehicle used by the perpetrator, the exact time, date and duration of the incident and the direction of travel into and out of our industrial complex. I'll post more as the case evolves.

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