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Story Time
By Lloyd Graff I remember virtually nothing from my early childhood. I sometimes think I was born when I was five years old. My parents told me that I did not talk [...]
Negotiating Like Pirates
By Lloyd Graff Connecting the dots from Wednesday’s news. Scott Brown, the Republican, won Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, which he had held for 47 years. Brown’s résumé includes posing nude [...]
Time to Retire?
By Lloyd Graff When my arterial plumbing got perilously close to fatal failure 16 months ago, God granted me the opportunity to reassess my life while on a breathing tube [...]
The Best and Worst Jobs
By Noah Graff A recent video from the online Wall Street Journal discusses a survey ranking the “best and worst jobs” of the 2010 economy. On the list, actuary ranked [...]
Feeling Good Next Year
By Noah Graff In order to make it professionally next year more people than ever in this world are going to have reeducate themselves, whether they’re learning CNC programming, switching [...]
The Unemployed Bowling Champion
For Tom Smallwood the possibility of a strike was part of life. He worked at Saginaw Steering for GM. He got the bad news that he was being laid off [...]
You’re Just Too Good to be True
The social awkwardness of Larry David on his HBO show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, makes me feel so uncomfortable that I rarely watch it. But I saw a clip from a recent [...]
Michael Jackson vs. Billy Mays
By Lloyd Graff Michael Jackson’s passing got most of the ink, but the death of TV pitchman, Billy Mays, just a few days later affected me so much more. Both [...]
Interview with John Griner of Griner Engineering
This is an excerpt from the Today’s Machining World interview in the February issue with John Griner of Griner Engineering. He discusses his experiences as a job shop producing automotive [...]
Waterjetting in Boston
The Celtics lost for the sixth time in eight games last night. Although that may be depressing for Bostonians, it’s a lot less gloomy news than what’s going on in [...]