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ABOVE Mike Goetz, P.E. Accepting a certificate at the Statehouse atrium ceremony.

 


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To Akron

 

Mike Goetz, P.E.
Ceremony at the Statehouse atrium

Bill Lhota, an AEP veteran, was the keynote speaker. He stressed the need for business ethics, and contrasted the outcomes of George Westinghouse, (died the year the first engineers' code of ethics appeared, yet was highly ethical himself, concerned about his employees, &c.), an engineer who brought down his firm and many of its partners by bribing politicians (such as U.S. Vice-President Spiro Agnew, who resigned as he plead guilty to tax evasion) to award them contracts, and Phil Condit, a highly-regarded eingineer at Boeing who rose to run the company, but whose lack of concern for ethics forced his resignation.

The roughly 150 or so being awarded the professional engineer designation were asked to stand at the side of the atrium in "roughly alphabetic order" so that they could quickly come forward when their names were called. Few but engineers could be expected to pull that off -- and there was little "roughly" about it.

 

Anti-war march started at First A.M.E Zion
Around the corner.

I can't bring myself to call it a peace march -- there was nothing peaceful about Saddam Hussein. What is truly harmful to a just peace is the U.S.'s alliance with brutal regimes such as the Saudi monarchy. The U.S. is still associated with the inept, undemocratic, and unjust rule of the Shah of Iran and pilloried in that nation as "the great satan."

That we took a stand against Saddam Hussein is to our credit -- whether or not it was wise to start such a war at such a time is far less certain. That it was unwise to go into it with so little planning for the aftermath is without doubt.

 

 

ABOVE Crocus with bee. The crocus are bold and beautiful now that they have escaped their temporary snow shells. (Back garden).


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Preparing for a long week ahead
Short-staffed next week, we hope to leave things in decent order tonight.

The first round of the NCAA men's basketball championships invaded Nationwide Arena across the street, so access to the office was itself limited.

 


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Choir rehearsal
We got out the Hallelujah Chorus for Easter. That dreadfully exposed high A is still there in the tenor line. I had hoped it would be rewritten.

Bexley afterward

 


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New Guinea Book
Online

AESQUE

 

Old news (March 11), but still notable
Jimmy Breslin | Newsday

For days now, the job at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County has been to follow the order from the White House through the Secret Service and down to the park workers:
"The president's feet are not to touch the dirt."

So all yesterday, large crews drawn from all county parks worked to ensure that, as always in his life, George Bush's feet do not touch the ground when he appears in the big park today.

 

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Snow day for Amy
In Akron. We get some snow, but most of it passes just to the north.

 

New Guinea pictures
Posted pages 1, 3-10 to see how it goes; more to come.

AESQUE

 

More Dostoevsky
Finished the third short novel in the collection, The Eternal Husband.

So many characters in Dostoesvky are both 40 and live on the 4th floor. Strange.

 

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Lonely
Without Amy & Charlie

 

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The Double
Feodor Dostoevsky
Finished reading it today

Where exactly to draw the line on the suspension of disbelief, whether this or that was not as it is here and now, this was a difficult thing.

An extraordinary number of people seemed to interact with "our hero's" double, his other personality, and trying to visualize what was truly happening was not easy.

 

Amy to Akron

 

Posted Desktops
Two Charlies for Amy

Outside
Charlie's chair

 

Third Sunday of Lent
Pastor Hudson was again not enthusiastic about Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ."

Sang the choir: Angels bear my soul away, by Garry Cornell (who also wrote the fanfare we are using for our wedding). There is an organ recital at the church scheduled for Tuesday that will debut another of his compositions.

The resolution of the final chord is quite beautiful in this piece (Angels bear my soul); Al said afterward he had intended to do it a capella, but neglected to tell the organist.

Other than us tenors dropping to an E where we ought to have put the far more interesting (not to mention written) G on one verse ending, the piece went very well.

 

 

 


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