About that privacy…

You ‘thought’ you had… Remember how criminal fingerprint bases were kept separate from military and civil (e.g. fingerprinted for a job)? Yeah, not so much anymore… I completely missed this one, but it came out in a discussion of the … Continue reading

A sad orphan…

  Many people don’t realize the history of the US Navy’s interest in a better riding ship… Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) designs have actually been around since the 1930s.  But the Navy got interested in the late 60’s … Continue reading

Impressive…

Creeping closer inch by inch, 900 feet above the mighty Colorado River, the two sides of a $160 million bridge at the Hoover Dam slowly take shape. The bridge will carry a new section of US Route 93 past the … Continue reading