Anne Meixner

@AcademicChatter I collect and curate engineering stories. I continue to be fascinated by semiconductor manufacturing processes, in particular defect occurrence. I write, post, tweet regarding technical leadership. I advocate for all nuero-diversities

@themarginalian Thomas Meeting once wrote "Love is the mending of broken bones." I felt it captures well the humanity of relationships

“All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness. Without tolerance and mercy all friendships die.” I keep returning to this David Whyte gem on friendship, love, and heartbreak themarginalian.org/2015/04/29/dav…

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

@dcuthbert @Google How about the safest route, turns at controlled intersection or roundabout A route with the fewest stop signs or traffic lights. Decades ago I learned a rout to the airport from a taxi driver. Now I teach it to taxi drivers because Google maps doesn't even suggest it

Given @Google’s relentless push with AI, i’m somewhat surprised that Google Maps is completely missing any form of capability to use AI when generating new routes. For example: “create a new bike route that includes both gravel and road and has a cafe stop. 50km loop” Come on

Remembering @tmeixner this evening at a faith formation event, Roman Catholic. Hope was mentioned multiple times. I remembered that my brother' s posting of this quote was shared in the first family statement after his brutal murder. Crying has not been easy. Tears come now.

@CalHGeol @tmeixner @USGSAZ Ahhhhh

Could not help thinking about missing @tmeixner, when at @USGSAZ, #LeesFerry gage. #LiveLikeTom, best stream gage ever!

@fermatslibrary Technically this is not a scientific challenge but an engineering challenge. No surprise that a craftsman solved it.

Here's an example when scientists were wrong - and the outsider was right In Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Jonathan Swift mocked British scientists for failing to solve the Longitude Problem: how to track your east-west position within a mile after crossing the Atlantic. It was the great scientific challenge of the 18th century. Parliament offered £20,000 - worth millions today - for a solution, entrusting the Royal Observatory to award the prize. In 1731, a self-taught clockmaker, John Harrison, cracked it. The astronomers didn’t believe him. For 40 years, Harrison refined his invention while the Observatory stonewalled. Only in 1773 - by act of Parliament - did he finally receive the prize and east-west navigation could be made safe.

Having worked for someone senior enough - these people don’t run their own lives. They don’t cook. They don’t clean. Don’t do groceries. Don’t do the garden. Don’t pick up kids. Don’t fetch their own medicine or dry cleaning or correspondence. 60 hrs is doable. FOR THEM.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

@ZachsORoutdoors Heard about this on the radio this morning. Risk assessments always make some people unhappy be they rural homeowners or semiconductor executives. Planning for potential high risks needs to be done. State resources are limited

For the second time in two years, Oregon lawmakers want to kill a map meant to identify areas at high risk of catastrophic wildfires but that has become a lightning rod for anger from rural residents who say it places an unfair burden on them: tinyurl.com/bdh3fj78

@Riddle_Lincoln Stowe

Skied Whiteface on Friday, Jay Peak on Saturday, Smuggler’s Notch on Sunday and Sugarbush today. Where should I head tomorrow🤔

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research

@PhysInHistory Engineers get things done. their focus is on "how.". Physicists add to our understanding of natural phenomenon. Their focus is on "why." @tmeixner articulated this to me in the summer of 2015. Sigh...I miss him every day

What differentiates an engineer from a physicist? ✍️

@TheSpaceGal Splendid. Note I prefer "Folks"

You guys, our planet. I left her. I saw her. 🥺

@Riddle_Lincoln Meanwhile on Mt Hood the forecast is for a foot of snow this weekend

Missed hearing the snow guns making snow! It’s one of the best sounds in the world I think

@PhysInHistory Indeed it would

If we had physicists but no engineers, would technology be a mere dream? ✍️

Roads to Rome

@SkinnyGrunt I visited Yellowstone this summer

Random photo from my phone Grand Loop Yellowstone National Park

#liveliketom and be excited that there is competition for urban flood and water quality management. Don't forget that local elections affect your neighborhoods more than the federal elections.

@norootcause Adore this.....

I want my life to be like a building: measured in stories

@CUAHSI Will check it out, I wrote. Artyin eye topic over a year ago.

Watch this new documentary, The Little Known Tale of the Thirsty Chips, about water usage in the semiconductor industry, created by Purdue researchers, recipients of the Let's Talk About Water grant! youtu.be/D4JriCCICX0?si…