Sex, Dead Dogs, and Me: The Juliette Journals

Williams, Ed

Biographies & Memoirs

Abique Inc

Did you ever . . .  Get lost at work coming back from the mens room?  Design an exercise machine that lets you reason with it?  Build a superpressure bean cooker that erupted like a volcano and paint the ceiling with bean juice? Rent a car and couldn't find where to put in gasoline? Ask a CIA Security Escort to join you in a mens room stall?  Convince your boss that "Dear It" is the nonsexist way to start a letter?  Show by mathematics that 4 hours is a full day of work? These guys did. They may be brilliant scientists, but Harold's wife worries that he'll get lost coming home from work, and Sid regularly forgets to go to work. Harold can make equipment talk, and Sid can figure angles to convince administrators to do whatever he wants. They're an ideal, but kooky pair. The two, who always get their research equipment at the salvage building, find certain people glow orange in the video system they built. Circumstances convince them that people acting deceitfully have the orange glow. They convince administrators that the machine works but is untestable - they say a lie told for the sake of testing sometimes may not be a lie.  Laboratory administrators are afraid to get near the machine because it might expose them, but they see the deceit detector as a money cow for research funds. Management says the project is too important for working scientists to manage and put a wheeler-dealer in charge. With plenty of funds available, new deceit detector projects sprout, machines to detect potential deceit, past deceits, . . . Sid and Harold lay low and keep puttering with scientific toys they get at salvage.  Sid and Harold discover their machine does not work. However, they elect to tell nobody and figure keeping quiet will let their funding go on for years and years.

Two Kooky Krackpots: IQ Alone Is Not Enough

Literature & Fiction

Bullock, Tom

Humor & Satire

Review from "True Rail Stories" "America's Worst Train Disaster may be about a terrible event back in 1910, but it makes wonderful reading for lovers of steam railroads. It tells of the business pressures driving decisions, decisions that ultimately resulted in over 96 deaths when an avalanche swept a mail and a passenger train down a deep gorge in Washington. According to the author, the trains were trapped in a snowstorm because the railroad undergoing evaluation for a mail contract. Besides that, the railroad also failed to move the trains to a siding which would have saved them from the avalanche. 
You will find a lot of description of railroad equipment. For example, ever hear of an articulated engine?- one that had a pivot to let it bend in the middle on sharp curves. Of course, there is considerable discussion of equipment and techniques of snow removal. Perhaps you have forgotten that not only passenger trains carried conductors, and the size of snow shoveling crews will amaze you. The book also contains news stories about the trapped trains, the disaster and even good quality photos taken during recovery operations by a newspaper photographer covering the sensational accident. 
The book contains a view of politics in the days when railroads had the power to mold laws to their liking. Moody obviously feels some of the animosity most people felt toward railroad tycoons. He particularly takes James J. Hill, the founder of the Great Northern Railway to task and suggests that Hill that arranged for the death count to be misstated on the low side. 
Moody lets no one off the hook in his discussion of the tragedy. He details wild stories newspaper reporters made up about the accident scene in an attempt to stimulate circulation. He tells of social biases against immigrants and uncomplimentary names used to describe foreign workers - not in private conversations but in newspaper columns too. 
The book does contain typos and errors that may distract the reader, but all in all, Moody did a good job. If railroads are your thing, this book belongs in your collection.

America's Worst Train Disaster

History

Don Moody

Americas

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