Marianne Oelund

So nice to hear from you, and thank you for sharing your story!  Many amazing coincidences, for sure. I'm trying to ease into retirement gradually, by finishing off a couple of tasks that I didn't ...

Due to my age, I always use reading glasses, and find the drug-store standard offerings to work well.  But I know that my left eye is 0.5 diopter more far-sighted, so one day I found some very ...

It was actually a fairly quick hand-held grab.  No measuring of angles involved, but from the shift between the photos it appears to be around 3 degrees.

We have civil engineers in our extended family - also retired. What's amazing, is that if someone had told me 50 years ago, that I would hold the same engineering position at an aerospace company ...

That is the only way I will be able to go back and enjoy my orchid as it appeared in real life.

Electronics for flight control systems.  Principally a hardware designer, but one can never get away from producing test software at least (one of the tasks I'm still working), and I spent a ...

I am officially retired from engineering now, plus the COVID-19 shutdowns have eliminated all of the skating competitions so far this year.  I am finishing a couple of tasks as a consultant for my ...

There they stood in a remote corner of the store's floor, forlorn, rejected and neglected, waiting patiently for a little love. Still beautiful, but clearly approaching the end of their bloom ...

Some of the elements in a lens are cemented together into pairs. This looks like the cement is starting to pull loose along the edges. Certain camera techs can separate elements like this, and ...