Quote of the Day

"We don't need perfection. What we need is Indiana!"

Context

I was packed in a minivan with too many other people and we were making our escape from a large city that was scheduled to host a "No Kings" protest in a couple of hours.

The navigator's smartphone had just gone Tango-Uniform due to a dead battery. The navigator was pointing out the deficiencies of the replacement unit. The screen was too small. The layout was tiled wrong. The controls were not intuitive....

From the back-seat one of the passengers observed "Brad, stuff a sock in it. We don't need perfection. What we need is Indiana!"

So, a big shout-out to  all of my readers who live in Indiana or who grew up in Indiana. How many other states can you name that are more desirable than perfection? 

One of my college professors was Bob Hubbard, one of the co-inventors of the HANS helmet used by NASCAR.

He went to college at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago during the Vietnam War. He clearly remembered having to fight his way through unwashed hippies protesting the war. But oddly enough, it was only when the weather was pleasant.

He went to his classes every day, rain-or-shine, sunny skies and when there were blizzards with -20F wind-chills. The protesters were only there during "picnic weather".

Looking at the weather, the No King's protests in the city were I was this weekend might be sparsely attended.