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\u2019ve learned to ignore Trump 2020 signage and those who display them. It\u2019ll 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...
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\\u2019s laissez-faire lassitude toward the pandemic \\u2013 to Floridians\\u2019 great detriment \\u2013 a has been all too...
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)
"\"TweetShareShareWhat will having a laser mapper in your pocket...
An ash and the emerald ash borer
"\"TweetShareShareI began to look at our ash tree not as trash, but as something that\\u2019s dead but doesn\\u2019t quite know it...
Earthview Media’s statement on racism
"\"TweetShareShareIt all boils down to vitamin...
Don’t wear a mask. This is about freedom.
"\"TweetShareShareSure, I\\u2019ll 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\u2019t look dirty doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s clean. That\u2019s always been true, of course. But the coronavirus pandemic is reinforcing this lesson in unspeakably tragic ways. A gleaming doorknob could well ...
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\\u2019s worth of PET water bottles. But Covid-19 is extremely serious, and it\\u2019s serious...
A chaperoning hellscape, courtesy of American Airlines
"\"TweetShareShareA buddy and I \\u2013 two dads on either side of 50 \\u2013 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...
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...