Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything

This is a spectacular article and one I wish Congress would read.  I especially love the following:

Wired: In your experience, what’s the best process for design?

Brooks: Great design does not come from great processes; it comes from great designers.

Wired: But surely The Design of Design is about creating better processes for great designers?

Brooks: The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you’re optimizing.

Excerpt taken from: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/ff_fred_brooks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Day 19

Well, at Day 19 I am getting closer to being able to complete a full set.  Hopefully by the end, I will be able to do it. However, I am losing weight, getting stronger and I can see the definition starting to come out in my chest, arms and legs.  There's no turning back now.

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Arizona Sheriff: ‘Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy’

Check out the following link: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/70324


(CNSNews.com) – Pinal County (Ariz.) Sheriff Paul Babeu is hopping mad at the federal government.

Babeu told CNSNews.com that rather than help law enforcement in Arizona stop the hundreds of thousands of people who come into the United States illegally, the federal government is targeting the state and its law enforcement personnel.

“What’s very troubling is the fact that at a time when we in law enforcement and our state need help from the federal government, instead of sending help they put up billboard-size signs warning our citizens to stay out of the desert in my county because of dangerous drug and human smuggling and weapons and bandits and all these other things and then, behind that, they drag us into court with the ACLU,” Babeu said.

The First Fit Test results

The results are in, and it is amazing.  Two weeks in and here are the results:

Fit test
		Week 1				Week 3					Week 5					Week 7
		Left	Right	Total		Left	Right	Total	% Change		Left	Right	Total	% Change		Left	Right	Total	% Change
Switch Kick				81				110	36%					-100%					#DIV/0!
Power Jacks				22				32	45%					-100%					#DIV/0!
Knee Thrusts		0	0	0		25	25	50	#DIV/0!				0	-100%				0	#DIV/0!
Power Jumps				0				10	#DIV/0!					-100%					#DIV/0!
Around the World				3				5	67%					-100%					#DIV/0!
Squat Thrust				0				6	#DIV/0!					-100%					#DIV/0!
Push Up Jacks				5				13	160%					-100%					#DIV/0!
Oblique Knee		15	15	30		17	17	34	13%				0	-100%				0	#DIV/0!

I expect to see larger results two weeks from now, the first day of week 5, so stay tuned.