I love our shower faucet.   When I set it to ’80’ it always gives just the right temperature water, no matter what time of year. I suppose as the son of an engineer this respect for accuracy was a given. I can picture my dad tapping a meter to make sure it wasn’t stuck. I loved his multi-meter with the mirror behind the needle so you were always reading it straight-on.

In high school I worked at HP, then the leading provider of precision instruments, so I felt I was doing respectable work. In my graduate thesis I came up with a pretty reliable way to judge the emotional content s in speech, a notoriously subjective thing.   In my photographic work, I often like sharp precise images, and enjoy composing and framing so everything is just right to my eye.

Hopefully, I’m not a total accuracy nut,  annoying other people.  I keep it to myself.