I was a junior at Stanford and not totally satisfied with my choice to become a chemical engineer.  I had at that point actually taken more art courses than those in ChE.  I always had an artistic flare, and when I graduated in ChE, I almost went to Sophia University in Tokyo to pursue my interest in art.  My more responsible self kept me on my path to become what I am today, But going back to 1960, I looked into becoming an architect or architectural engineer.  To do so meant I had to spend a extra year and half making up courses.  But I've kept up with this field, which will lead today to an architect no one has ever heard of, Shaun Killa. To begin, who designed those noteworthy structures of our historic past? A good place to start is the Great Pyramid of Giza, which dates back to 2560 BC, or 4585 years ago. Egyptian Prince Hemiunu  is believed to have been the architect. Actually, Egyptian chancellor to King Djoser around 2625,  Imhotep , built the...

But first, a thing or two about Opening Day for most of Major League Baseball.  I yesterday showed you how I was celebrating, spending essentially all of 9AM to 7PM, Hawaii Time, watching the games. That was brunch, and for the remainder of the day I had a variety of peanuts and chips with Johnny Walker Blue Label on rocks and a gin martini.  I also went down for a short dinner and had two glasses of Burgandy. Baseball is baseball, teams win and lose, inexplicably, making opening day mostly meaningless.  However, the  Los Angeles had quite a pre-game ceremony : Their ownership group, including Magic Johnson and Billie Jean King, raised the Dodger championship flag behind center field. In the audience was 92-year old Phil Brooks, a retired physician who was attending his 60th consecutive Dodger opening.  Accompanying him was his son Stan, only his 40th consecutive opener. Ice Cube, who has become a Dodger celebrity, drove up to pass on the World Series Championsh...