Nobrainer’s Think Tank

I’m back in Northern VA after my brief trip to Albany. What did I learn on my trip?

- Making blog comments about terrorist watch lists does not seem to impact how carefully I am screened
- Albany definitely has a bad side of town
- I otherwise learned very little about Albany
- Hanging out in a room full of mostly old power systems engineers is pretty freaking boring
- If anyone ever tells you anything about the electrical grid, they are probably wrong
- I should have paid more attention in circuits class. On the flipside, I blame Dr. Drake for designing a class that was passable as opposed to educational.
- I love small airports. ALB >> IAD. Flying back today, my co-workers and I breezed through security, stopped, had dinner, walked to our gate and go on the plane without having to wait at all.
- Scrod is not a particular type of fish.
- I hate flying.

Friday, I fly to Greenville (for fun). Hopefully my name is not on any terrorist watch lists.

Last May I noted that Zimbabwe had run its inflation rate up to over 3700% and at the same time earned a position at the head of UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Now, less than 5 months later, things have become a bit worse.

The new [wage] freeze, announced in Friday’s editions of government-controlled newspapers, is intended to combat an annual inflation rate that the government says exceeds 7,600 percent, and private economists say is twice that.