On Robot Overlords
Extract from a recent New Yorker story, "Welcoming our new robot overlords" beep-beep-whooshA decade ago, industrial robots assisted workers in their tasks. Now workers—those who remain—ass…
Where can I get these alphabet blocks? :-(
I had bought some blocks a couple of years ago (too early!) and now that Tara’s going to be three, dusted them off to really use them for alphabets instead of just "blocks for a tower". Of…
Media Summary: September 2017
 Some interesting links for the month: * This right here is just … one of those things I can’t believe I hadn’t seen yet: a “breaking the fourth wall” sketch on Saturday Night Live about “The last…
Monthly recap (September 2017)
(nothing much happened this month) Minor updates: * Went to Barnes and Noble with Tara for the first time (fun!) * Zume pizza party with our ex-neighbors * Meeting some friends * Kick-started jo…
The bug count also rises
This is amazingly funny, so I just had to reproduce it. Highlighted my favorite bits ... enjoy! Many days he stood for a long time and watched the rain and the shuttles and drank his double-tall moch…
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…