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 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...
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...
I recently had dinner with a friend who’s plugged into professional sports. We got to talking about the across-the-board athleticism in pro sports. Take football: all the different sizes and body types mask the underlying reality that even...
What you think depends on what you read or watch. This applies broadly: a romance reader will see the world somewhat differently than a lover of thrillers, both by instinct and through the influence of what feeds their brains. This becomes a...
I sat at my desk in Denver on a recent October night faced with a question: does it make sense to spend three grand over four days? On the surface, it made no sense, given that we as a family generally run a slight but very real financial budget...
People who despise Trump will continue to despise Trump. People who somehow don’t despise Trump will continue to somehow not despise him.
If she’s going to do the story with or without you, and you’re not going to look good either way, you’re better off talking to the reporter.
I wrote quite a bit about Velodyne in The Laser That’s Changing the World — David Hall, the company’s founder and CEO, is a brilliant engineer who developed the lidar sensor that paved they way for the first great leaps in...
With the Hubble Legacy Field, what it doesn’t capture is as remarkable as what it does.
The 2019 edition of the International Lidar Mapping Forum is a wrap. The folks at Diversified Communications provided a booth (thank you!), which gave me the opportunity to hang out and chat with a bunch of interesting folks for the better part...
Elon Musk was right when he called lidar a “crutch” when it came to self-driving cars. Where he’s not right, though, is that the technology’s crutchitude is somehow a reason not to employ lidar—which uses lasers to scan the world around them...
Todd Neff © 2020
