Sci/Math/Prog Summary: September 2017
Fun stuff from the past month … * Blast from the past: a “Unix logo contest”, twenty years ago, that was in turn celebration thirty years of Unix. * A “less massive” black hole right next to the su…
Media Summary: August 2017
Some interesting links for this month: * To start with, a great clip from Moby Dick (the 1956 movie with Gregory Peck) * A story with a self-descriptive headline: “When Silicon Valley Took Over Jou…
Monthly recap (August 2017)
Highlight: Went for a 5K run. Very slow, and a sore afterwards, but the first run of any sort after a year. Minor updates: * Tara’s daycare was closed for three days, and we went to Happy Hollows…
Sci/Math/Prog Summary: August 2017
Random list of interesting stuff this month: * Some progress on gene editing (!) * A very well-preserved dinosaur * A profile of the old people steering old space probes. * This is one of those h…
Media Summary: July 2017
Some interesting links from the last month: * “Adam’s Calendar”: could be the world’s oldest megalithic site (so, what’s not to like?) * An interesting intersection of H. P. Lovecraft and J. G. Bal…
Monthly recap (July 2017)
Highlight: I’d got tickets for the Monterey Bay Aquarium back in December, but finally went this weekend, at the end of July. Visiting after three years, and my favorites are always the jellyfish and…
Sci/Math/Prog summary: July 2017
Random list of interesting stuff this month: * The Lyft bus announcement led to some hand-wringing. * I knew there were rivers that flow under the land; apparently some flow under the sea too. * I…
Media Summary: June 2017
Random stuff from last month: * An article in The Nation tries to find roots of ”post-truth” a few decades ago. * The Guardian voices skepticism on ”crypto-anarchy”. * The wonderful Maria Popova b…
Monthly recap (June 2017)
Big highlight: Tara’s cousins were visiting. We went to San Francisco over a weekend, then drove further up north to a small beach town near Bodega Bay (my second good AirBnB experience; slightly les…
Media Summary: May 2017
Random stuff from last month: * The SpaceX launch happened * There was this thing called the “Fyre Festival” which imploded and yielded immense parody (a leaked pitch deck featured tons of groan-wo…
Monthly recap (May 2017)
Big highlight: finally finished the 1000-piece puzzle I had been working on (will share a full album later). Sold my 7-year old second-hand Civic and bought a new Subaru Outback (so we can finally ta…
Media Summary: April 2016
* There are such things as Paleoburrows, dug by “mega fauna” in the past. “So if a 90-pound animal living today digs a 16-inch by 20-foot borrow, what would dig one five feet wide and 250 feet long?…