I thought it was "park by Braille." Same thing I guess.

A hobby of giant pickup truck owners is to choose the end space in a small lot, and park there with the long end of their vehicle sticking out into traffic. Not uncommon to see a mostly-empty row of spaces bracketed by huge trucks at the ends...

ET is a mere recapitulation of Calvin and Hobbes:

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

Just the upper ranks, eh?

My dad's boss, back when he joined Lockheed in 1943, was Kelly Johnson. He was a member of the original Skunk Works team. Of course I never knew much about any of this back then. First of all I was just a little kid, and secondly, most importantly, because all of the work he did was classified. About all I ever knew was that he helped design and build airplanes, and he liked his job very much. He had lots of pictures of old planes he'd helped design, but very few places in the house that my mother would allow him to hang them. My favorite story that he would tell me was how they covered up Burbank to disguise it from being bombed during the war. That sounded so cool.

Recently, since a lot of information has been declassified, I know that seven years after he joined Lockheed he was appointed head of the company's Aerodynamics Laboratory in Burbank and supervised the design and calibration of Lockheed's first wind tunnel. He also introduced the first on-line computer at Lockheed to read wind tunnel balances. In 1948 he was made head of the company's electronics research department and directed the design and production of ground and airborne range-finding gear for one of its early missible projects, the X-7, an experimental winged missile used principally for testing ram-jet engines. He developed a height-finding radar system and Ben Rich, in his book, credits him with overseeing telemetry technology that was "precedent-setting and which would hold Lockheed in good stead for many years to come." Surely it must have been an exciting time in aviation history.

In the late 50s he and a number of other engineers and scientists were sent to Palo Alto, and later to Sunnyvale, where they laid the groundwork for Lockheed's space program.

A-yup.

Reducing the weapon size and weight not only made Nevada glow blue (testing the things) it allowed development and deployment of MIRVs.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

My mentor in electronics, Bela Losmandi, formerly Senior Engineering Staff at Hughes Aircraft, designed the control system for the Trident missile.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

Yep, exactly. You could put it in the back seat of a car. That's the whole problem.