Last Friday I was doing some research for my next article (it feels so good either writing or telling this phrase) when suddenly a message appeared in my LinkedIn account.It had been sent by a Pakistani process automation engineer that was working installing some electrical equipment in an industrial plant located somewhere in the south […]
Some historical background In my last article, I mentioned the avoirdupois pound, but I avoided any side story about this measurement unit to focus on the horsepower story. But after researching its origins and evolution, I discovered, IMHO, a fascinating story. The avoirdupois system is a system for the measurement of weight developed in the […]
We met M the day we arrived to the Tronador Hotel, this February. She was just recovering from the sting of a “yellow jacket” wasp in her right hand. The Tronador Hotel is an idyllic place located in the middle of Argentina´s northern Patagonia. Built in 1934 by Benito Vereertbrugghen, the son of a Belgian doctor […]
“Space Oddity” was the first Bowie song that I heard, it was haunting, beautiful and otherwordly. I heard it while looking for new stuff for the “radio” that was my responsibility in high school in the early eighties. The’”white thin duke” trend and fad still had to come. In those years I was a weird, […]
At 5 past 7 on the 25th day of an unknown month, my analog wristwatch, a heavy piece of precision machinery made of stainless steel and scratch proof cristal, had stopped working. This simple story could have been absolutely irrelevant to most of the people I know. For me it represented a particularly significative event. […]