Shepformation Monthly Newsletter
Information, resources, and news from Shepley for building professionals on Cape Cod and Nantucket.
You Get What You Inspect, Not What You Expect!
In Moscow during World War 2, there lived a university statistics professor. During air raids, he was known by his friends never to bother with air raid shelters. By his calculations, the odds were minute that he would ever be killed by a...
The Good Old Days
July marked the 40th anniversary of Shepley. What an interesting milestone! At 40, we are supposed to be old enough to know better but young enough to live our dreams. Mentally I still have myself pegged at 35. Our sons...
40 Years Young
How much has our world changed since 40 years ago? In 1978, we were just being exposed to the first video games. Pong was a very basic tennis style video game and Space Invaders was one of the first battle games, crude...
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States
Parallel Processing
Parallel Processing is a computer term that describes the way in which a computer can perform multiple processing functions or multiple storage functions at the same time. Computers use this to either increase their...
Heroes
Boy, did I unleash a firestorm of response to the article I wrote about customers wanting “More, More, More” recently. People have gone out of their way to tell me stories of how customers have put them through the wringer...
Déjà vu All Over Again
This past year has seen some major market upheaval because of the re-introduction of Countervailing Duties on softwood lumber from Canada. Please note the use of the word re-introduction. This isn’t our first time, just...