A site of my random ramblings. I’m a semi-retired 45-year veteran of the engineering software trenches, with stints at the Jet Propulsion Lab, a small appraisal research firm, and 35 years with MSC Software, one of the leading providers of computer-aided engineering tools.

I bought a new 2005 Yamaha FJR1300A motorcycle in August, 2004, and used the handle tcfjr on the FJR1300 forum. (I lived in a town called Temple City at the time, and one of the top contributors to the forum used a handle with his city followed by ‘fjr’ so I wanted to emulate it.) I still have that bike - 20 years later and now with 140,000 miles, and it’s still running strong.

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