I don't care if this is apropos of nothing today

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

Cross-discipline reading is dangerous

I used a Quantum Mechanics metaphor (Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle) today in order to justify a new approach to our manufacturing supply chain architecture.

If this works it'll be total nerdvana.