I’ve never been a sports fan. In fact I’ve never voluntarily watch the sports game that one of my children was not in. Still, I like watching people watch the Superbowl.
Were up at Tim and Jen’s doing just that now. The highlight of the game so far for me has been the failure of the light system. I can’t help thinking of the poor engineers scurrying around somewhere trying to figure out what happened.
That’s actually been a theme I’ve been meditating on for a couple of weeks. It’s probably because I have a couple of very tough projects both at work and at home. It seems to me that one off projects are very difficult to make foolproof on your first try. No matter what you do, you cannot anticipate certain fault scenarios. That kind of resilience is a fundamental aspect of complex systems. There’s no getting around it. Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to be a great excuse tomorrow when that Ford engineers shows up talk to his or her boss. Still, you need to wonder what Beyoncé’s halftime show power requirements were actually. That was pretty cool.… And no wardrobe failure either.
They’re about to recycle the lights so I should get back and pretend to be watching again. I’m not even sure who I’m for, except that I have many relatives in Baltimore. What’s more I guy Arthur Jones went to Diane’s high school. So I guess I’m for Baltimore. But that’s easy to say because they’re ahead.
Night all, night Sam
-me