WORDLE

Are you playing Wordle? It’s fascinating to me how this puzzle has caught on as we look for distractions from that other 5-letter word that begins with C and ends with D and has two non-adjacent vowels. What has this got to do with analysis? Well, sometimes...

Kickback

Recently I saw an ad for a furniture store encouraging me to “kickback in style”. I remember hearing that word a lot as a term for relaxation when I moved to southern California in the early 80s. Before moving, I had read that word a lot in the Chicago...

Breaking Bad

“A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No, I am the one who knocks!” — Walter White. Sometimes I look at my airplane the way Skyler looks at Walt in that scene. On my recent annual it was a crack in the flange of the muffler...

It Might As Well Be Spring

Would you know the symptoms of a broken valve spring in your engine data? We’re pretty good at spotting clogged injectors and fouled plugs from their distinctive patterns. We even developed our FEVA scan for detecting burned valves. Broken valve springs can be,...

Hiccups Part 2

In our last episode, we looked at events that seem to happen randomly, versus something that breaks and stays broken. Let’s call them hiccups. I had too many for one Puzzler, so this is Hiccups Part 2. The annoying thing about hiccups is there’s no...