Three years ago, I wrote this post about my experience at UCLA Bruin Family Weekend. I have done this three times now, this year with a second Bruin daughter. It’s time for an update, ideally one helpful to future UCLA Bruin Family Weekend...
So I hear you’re voting for Trump. No, that’s a good idea. If you want to stop immigrants from taking all our jobs because you’re dying to work in a slaughterhouse or atop a roof, no question, Trump’s the guy. If you’re from an hollowed-out...
My daughter Maya was accepted to UT Austin. Despite eBaying a lot of University of Michigan garb (and wearing my old Michigan Soccer schwag), and despite the small “go blue” sticker on her car, and despite her deep distaste for Texas politics...
The caption of this New York Times story, found on its homepage today, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2024, caught my eye. Not to pick on Jan Altena, a 69-year-old grandfather from Orange City, Iowa — he’s entitled to his opinions. But...
I’ve been reading up on artificial intelligence – Time Magazine’s recent “100 Most Influential People in AI” and the Atlantic’s excellent piece on Open AI CEO Sam Altman among the many. My book, “The Laser That’s Changing the World,” is...
Given today’s news about Trump’s classified docs case, I figured I’d share my Classified Presidential Issue Poll from 2020.
My daughter has said, without irony, that she thinks she’s going to get shot at school. Two faculty just did, and so did Luis Garcia just last month.
Having bought a set of Nitto tires, I thought I would share some positives and negatives about them. Positives: They are black. They are round. Negatives: They wear out as if made of some combination of vulcanized rubber and powdered sugar...
Most interesting was the oft-repeated “1,000% match.”
This ocean of improbability is a true measure of the tub of deep time.
The 2022 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony is happening now. My daughter is not an Olympian. But she recently skated with one in an Xfinity ad. It’s here: Lily 18, is in her first year at UCLA studying chemistry. She has been figure skating...
The central act of Larry Harrison’s day is to tip back a couple of ounces of liquid that tastes like pink cough syrup.
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