The Peripatetic Engineer

Notes From Around The World by an Oilfield Troubleshooter

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Shoddy Levee Construction

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The local CBS affiliate has uncovered a bit of shoddy workmanship on levee walls protecting St. Bernard Parish. The contractor used newspape...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Over

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My wife and I took Niece Godchild to a Japanese restaurant the other night. It had opened recently and it advertised teppanyaki . To my know...
Friday, April 25, 2008

NOLA History

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On this day in 1862, New Orleans fell to Union forces under Captain David Farragut. General Benjamin Butler, a politically connected incompe...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

More Inconvenient Truths

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Am I the only one or do you too think that when you take a piece of special effects and pass it off as reality in a documentary that maybe ...
Monday, April 21, 2008

More Crawfish

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It was an eclectic Saturday. It started out with me planting bare root roses. My wife and I are trying to reconstitute our rose garden. Thes...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

Murphy's Law of Unintended Consequences

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It seems there's a little reported crisis in the worlds rice markets. The price of rice, a staple food for most of the world population,...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Sunday Crawfish

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The weather was great on Sunday. It was one of those rare days in South Louisiana when the humidity doesn ’t cause you to soak through your ...
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