BigCat’s Blog of DOOM

My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.

Browsing Posts published in October, 2007

I hate pre-movie commercials

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http://www.themovieblog.com/2007/10/why-commercials-before-movies-is-worse-than-piracy I agree with this editorial completely. I hate pre-movie commercials with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns. No seriously, I hate them that much. You should hear the ear-full I give Lauren at every single movie we go to and show up for on time. It is gotten to the point that [...]

http://www.csiro.au/news/FantasticPlastic.html This is the type of cool future-technology we know and love from science fiction. We need more of this in the material science world. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the kind of things our material science customers do with the products we sell at my branch of Veeco, like solar cell research, but [...]

Current Mood: feeling like a failure, and subsequently tired and edgyI think one of the more jarring things in life is to stumble upon something that you did not know that you did not know. Those things that you never even thought to consider that pop up and bite you in the ass. I’ve had [...]

A Problem vs. A Question

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As an engineer one of the things I spend a lot of time doing, is answering the “why?” question. Why did something fail, what caused it, how do we keep it from happening again. But, when the problem becomes personal pain, my pain, and the obvious question is “why?”, “why pain?”, “why pain at all” [...]

We are hiring at Veeco

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Anything on this page that is located in St. Paul is a job for where I work http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?q=veeco&fn=&lid=&re=130&cy=us&brd=1&JSNONREG=1 Specifically, the design group / engineering group, that I work with is looking for: Electrical Engineer: This is exactly the same thing I do, which is mostly controls work. I’ll probably be doing a lot of training [...]