Some background on my new book, “A Beard Cut Short”
Quick summary: a blog post led to a book.
Trump’s a bad choice for this beach dweller
I’ve learned to ignore Trump 2020 signage and those who display them. It’ll drive you crazy otherwise. More than 40 percent of the country will vote for a dangerous incompetent for reasons that make twisted sense (for the rich, low taxes and...
Covid-19 in CO and FL: A tale of the tape
I was reticent to travel to Florida from my adoptive home state of Colorado. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s laissez-faire lassitude toward the pandemic – to Floridians’ great detriment – a has been all too well-documented. But then I looked at the...
Lidar (and me) on the Curiosityness podcast
Travis DeRose of the excellent Curiosityness podcast — an eclectic and fascinating smorgasbord with episodes spanning the visual effects of Star Wars, how to get started mountain biking, the Presidential Pet Museum, the science of stand-up...
Lidar to hit mainstream in pockets (not on cars)
What will having a laser mapper in your pocket mean?
An ash and the emerald ash borer
I began to look at our ash tree not as trash, but as something that’s dead but doesn’t quite know it yet.
Earthview Media’s statement on racism
It all boils down to vitamin D.
Don’t wear a mask. This is about freedom.
Sure, I’ll wear a mask: when you put it on my too-warm, pneumonic body as you wheel me from the inpatient tower to the ICU for proning and intubation.
Coronavirus in the air: what we know; what can help
Just because it doesn’t look dirty doesn’t mean it’s clean. That’s always been true, of course. But the coronavirus pandemic is reinforcing this lesson in unspeakably tragic ways. A gleaming doorknob could well be coated with millions of...
Coronavirus is exponential math in human lungs
I have not rented space in a former Minuteman missile silo, nor have I stockpiled a cubic kilometer of toilet paper or a reservoir’s worth of PET water bottles. But Covid-19 is extremely serious, and it’s serious because of something Al Bartlett...
A chaperoning hellscape, courtesy of American Airlines
A buddy and I – two dads on either side of 50 – chaperoned a group of twenty 14- and 15-year-old girls from here in Denver to a soccer tournament in Phoenix (the Desert Classic) last weekend. I write this as a public service to share with the...
Death of democracy redux?
I’m always a bit laggard in my New Yorker reading and typically fall weeks or months behind — so it is when one’s New Yorker reading is done mainly while brushing one’s teeth and facilitating biological imperatives. In the...