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| John Richard VanderPutten in his
sailboat on Long Island Sound, circa 1975 |
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I remember telling Dick, my Admiral, that my father, also a civil
engineer, had made the mistake of telling my mother that there was a
term used in construction called the bending moment of the beam... don't
load any more onto it... She would say, "Fred, I have reached the
bending moment of the beam."
Then Dick told me of a phrase I should pursue. When you dig a ditch,
trying to make straight sides, the dirt slides back in to the bottom,
leaving the sides sloping at the "angle of repose"... which
sounded like a good thing to find.
- Pat Moore
Wed, 17 May 2006 |
