Ken Martin’s Blog

One very nice things about being able to work from home occasionally is being able to see things like this (small movie). :)

…and we were thankfully not nearby, but the 35W Mississippi River bridge collapse is just stunning and horrible. It’s just unbelievable. There were no known problems with the bridge. No interesting or extreme weather. Just a second of shaking and then it fell; 64 feet down to the river. Here’s a quick map of where it [...]

Here’s a 3D panorama I took during our trip to South Carolina. It’s of us visiting a tiny little island in Lake Wylie. Click and drag in the image to look around. Various members of our family have labeled it Martin Island and Shell Island. The naming issue was hotly contested while we were there, and so [...]

We’re just back from our family vacation driving to South Carolina. It was very nice. It was a long drive. More later, but I just wanted to say hello. Note for next time: I will not actually be able to get a hotel room on the Sunday evening before the Fourth of July. Anywhere.

Big news! Today was my first day at a new job! Two weeks ago I resigned my position as VP of Production and Technology at Simply Retail, where I’d been for over two years. I hadn’t been actively looking for a new job, but one day about a month ago I got an email from a [...]

See my lovely bride’s blog to know why. :)

As unimpressive as the reporters (twice) were showing me their foot plunged “deep” into 2-inch snow, the actual snowfall that came over the next 36 hours was prodigious. Saturday was a perfect storybook day for the kids. Deep, sticky snow lent itself to snowballs and half a dozen forts. Occasional periods of heavy snowfall; big, [...]

More Anna Chatter. We were driving to church last Sunday and she was discussing the many inventions she’s working on. One was a domestic robot, I think. She described the many ambitious things it would do, and then asked if I thought she could make it. I told her maybe, but she’d have to learn [...]

Now that’s original, isn’t it? Well, December brought an end to a whirlwind of projects at work. All were successfully finished up, and then came some welcome time off. Convalescence. Ahhh, wonderful. We had a really nice Christmas enjoying family, friends and church. The rest brought recovery from illness; everyone but Kenny and I had come down [...]

Kenny captured the spirit of the season a few years ago with this drawing. (Click it to see a larger view.)