The exception that occurred was due not to random failure but to a design error. The exception was detected but was handled inappropriately because the view had been taken that software should be considered correct until it is shown to be at fault. The … opposite view [is] that software should be assumed to be faulty until application of the currently accepted best practice methods can demonstrate that it is correct. This means that critical software must be identified at a very detailed level, that exceptional behavior must be confined, and that a reasonable back-up policy must take software failures into account. -Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1996-

China Clipper calling Alameda.

That’s us: Grace, Klutz and our little dog Stumble.

Don’t take it personally, stupid.

“One nation, under Me.” -God-

I am me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone choose it. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, whatever I think and feel is me. Take me for me!

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.

“You think it’s hot here?” -God-

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It’s only in the amount where the Republicans excel. -Will Rogers-

There are Rules and there are Laws. The rules are made by men who think that they know better how to fly your airplane than you. The Laws (of Physics) were made by the Great One. You can, and sometimes should, suspend the Rules but you can never suspend the Laws.