Chris

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• Commented on NASA LaRC Poll: Helping People Feel Attractive and Lovable (#21)

  Contractors are scored by government customers but butt kissing as much as performance. Low levels of systems engineering expertise among many civil service task order holders makes it worse. The contractor ends up owning the actual performance metrics while the...

• Commented on Big Party in The Mojave Tonight

  Wish you were there webstearming it for us Keith. Editor's note: me too - but I was not invited....

• Commented on NASA LaRC Poll: Helping People Feel Attractive and Lovable (#21)

  I wrote my note on the measurement stupidty without yanking on my own qualifications. I am an almost Yale PhD in experimental inical psychology and specialized in measure - from millisecond eye secads, projectvies, surveys, questionairre a,d the like. I...

• Commented on Huntsville's Revolving Door Spins Up

  Gee ... another corrupt IT contract award at NASA like another one a few years ago at HQ that Moose swept under one of his many rugs. Wonder if the new IG has any interest in this kind of revolving...

• Commented on NASA LaRC Poll: Helping People Feel Attractive and Lovable (#21)

  Sounds like the faux (albeit degreed) industrial psychologists that Pat Dunnington knew from her days as the LARC CIO. Pat justified the time she had us waste with them by explaining that with their involvement she could hold our offsite...

• Commented on Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program RFI Released

  Sounds like the faux industrial psychologists that Pat Dunnington used to use because they were able to bring their own funds to the party to pay for Pat's lavish offsite CIO meetings. They were long standing buddy's of her from...

• Commented on LCROSS: Yes, We Found Water - A Significant Amount

  I have been reading Heinlein for 50 years and have only known Wargo for 10 but their batting averages are both .. well .. astronomical....

• Commented on LCROSS: Yes, We Found Water - A Significant Amount

  This is awesome and such a counterpoint to Bolden doing yet another space architecture study. That would be three now since Columbia. The CAIB set two meta-requirements - fit requirements to budget and proceed in a fashion that would insure...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Launch Scrubbed

  Yeaaaaaaa...

• Commented on Still On The Train to Crazy Town

  Seems like Stu's fall, in the context of his having apparently mis billed the government for lengthy periods, is more an instance of Hanna Arendt's insight into the banality of evil rather than some Shakespearian mirage. The Stu I knew...

• Commented on Stu Nozette Arrested for Espionage

  This is really sad as Stu was so bright, funny, and had so much to offer the country. One always had a sense with him he was on some type of invisible high wire - I am sad he had...