Walking off a short jog yesterday with an old friend from Canton, Ohio who lives in Sydney and has kids with strong accents, I came across a man flying a drone over a house around the corner.
"Louie, sorry man, I've got to talk to this guy," I told my friend.
Louie has known me for 25…
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I'm on the Asahi Glass Foundation mailing list. Despite being made of glass, this is a serious foundation, most famous for its annual bestowing of the Blue Planet Prize.
When I say mailing list, I mean this literally -- you get paper-based mail. The interesting thing that, despite being based in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, my mail from…
NASA sent out a press release with two Mars-related news items yesterday. Whether this was an attempt to bury the bad news, you decide.
First, the good news: An erstwhile freshwater lake in what's now Gale Crater, whose rocks the Curiosity rover sampled, wasn't too acidic to have harbored life maybe 4 billion years ago. If…
Lily and Maya with their snorkeling instructor this afternoon at Denver Divers.
Occasionally the full ridiculousness of modern, rich-country existence slaps you square on the cheek. It should happen more often. This morning, I was washing off fresh raspberries when I told Maya, 8, "You know, this is kind of miraculous. It's two degrees Fahrenheit outside…
If my website were a house, it would look something like this.
I'm in the middle of a bit of a website revamp. Moving from an aging, custom-designed HTML base (for which I learned Dreamweaver from a book. Ah, memories...) to a WordPress base.
It's not going particularly well, to be honest, because waybackwhen, I chose a…