“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Agnes Martin A few years ago, I created a blog post on using View Repre...

“If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.”  Mario Andretti If you've been following my blog, you may...

 “Vacation used to be a luxury, however, in today's world, it has become a necessity.” ~Anonymous It's been a pretty busy and rew...

“You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.” Leontyne Price Ear...

“The essence of wise living is anticipating the unanticipated and expecting the unexpected.” Kevin A. Woolsey Earlier this week, I was co...

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde iMates in Autodesk Inventor.   I would often joke that the only time I used them...

This weekend, I walk into the world of past, of history, and of legacy. Jonathan Landeros I spent this last weekend pursuing one of my &q...

“Combined they could be extraordinary, but that doesn't [automatically] move them to the upper echelon. It puts them in the right path b...

“A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open” Francis Bacon, Sr. Recently, I was adding Updat...

“Language is the archives of history” Ralph Waldo Emerson As I've walked through my travels in "the industry", I've fou...

“It's not the load that breaks you down - its the way you carry it” Lou Holtz Last week, I needed to show someone how to bulk load da...

“Not that easy, but just a boring hole.” Kevin Hayashi In the last Autodesk Inventor course, the subject of modifying the hole tables i...

“Organize your life around your dreams - and watch them come true.” Unknown Every time I train an Autodesk Inventor class, I mention th...

“Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together.” Pat Colander Now I've returned fr...

I don't mind sitting in the back row of an airliner.  Aircraft usually don't back into a crash. Jonathan Landeros This weeks t...

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker. Roger Daltrey In a few short days...

“Wisdom is a blessing only to those prepared to absorb it.” Anonymous  Sometimes lessons come from the most unexpected places. One of tho...

“There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.” François de la Rochefoucauld Th...

Yeah, it felt a little like that! Sometimes it pays to check the obvious!  Occasional "spring cleaning" of your CAD machine...

 Delay is preferable to error. Thomas Jefferson I'm afraid this is one of those weeks that I have to push my blog back a bit.  It was ...