Some background on my new book, “A Beard Cut Short”
TweetShareShareQuick summary: a blog post led to a...
Trump’s a bad choice for this beach dweller
TweetShareShareI’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...
Covid-19 in CO and FL: A tale of the tape
TweetShareShareI 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...
Lidar (and me) on the Curiosityness podcast
TweetShareShareTravis 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...
Lidar to hit mainstream in pockets (not on cars)
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An ash and the emerald ash borer
TweetShareShareI began to look at our ash tree not as trash, but as something that’s dead but doesn’t quite know it...
Earthview Media’s statement on racism
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Don’t wear a mask. This is about freedom.
TweetShareShareSure, 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...
Coronavirus in the air: what we know; what can help
TweetShareShareJust 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...
Coronavirus is exponential math in human lungs
TweetShareShareI 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...
A chaperoning hellscape, courtesy of American Airlines
TweetShareShareA 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...
Death of democracy redux?
TweetShareShareI’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...