Two different high-profile news stories have really flipped my “curmudgeon” switch this week. It irritates me that the general public is distracted...

We’ll get back to our “origin story” project soon. One thing I have noticed about the guest blogs so far is that the people kept moving up the ladd...

My dear friend Octave’s account of his co-op experience (see Tuesday’s 1-29 post) reinforces my belief that no one should trust an engineer or desi...

I was attending the University of Cincinnati in the college of engineering. After my freshman year in 1960, I started my co-op job with the Cincinn...

For most of human history, skills were passed from one generation to the next by some form of apprenticeship. Only in the last couple of centuries ...

Here is the first of our guest blogs on the topic of how you entered the gear trade. Chris Trochelman (pictured above, fa...