Author: John
-
Kölsch, a Summer Beer
Walker Engineering has been experimenting with local beers in an attempt to determine the appropriate Summer Beer for company social events. Mind you, we live in Portland and summer has not started yet, but it might any minute. We have selected Kölsch for this summer. There is a nice article in the NYTimes summarizing the…
-
Summertime: Impromptu Dry Erase Board
It is finally summer at Walker Engineering and one thing I like to do is finally complete projects that require thinking and projects that require MAKE-ing. One that I think I am off to snap into place tomorrow for fun is this Impromptu Dry Erase board as a desktop organizer. I am going to use parts…
-
Coffee Shop or Coworking Center?
I admit my bias against those working in coffee shops freely. I can no longer go anywhere in the afternoon and have coffee and hang out, talk with people, treat myself, or simply people watch. Albina Coffee, Stumptown, even Crema. Every table is taken with a single person, a laptop, and a pile of papers…
-
Easy Exercises You Can Do At Your Desk
While researching activity one can do at work, I stumbled across this recent article titled 20+ Exercises You Can Do at Your Desk on Mashable. I have to agree with their labeling this a favorite, it turned out to be ours as well. But the important point we took away was to review Video Sites…
-
Recent Study Demonstrates Americans Less Active at Work
A recent article in the NYTimes, Well: Less Active at Work, Americans Have Packed on Pounds outlines that one area coming into focus more than in previous years is the measured decline in physical activity by the changing nature of employment in the US. A sweeping review of shifts in the labor force since 1960…