Interesting links: June 2019
* Absolutely fascinating coverage of key (and forgotten) developments in the history of electrical technology * A lot of original music records are susceptible to getting lost * Inspiring: learning…
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Monthly recap (May 2019)
Major updates: * Some backyard spruce-up: bird feeders, and my first gardening experience, a pot of badly-planted yet hardy Marigold * New fun activity with Tara: “quilting on paper” (more on that…
Interesting links: May 2019
* The big one for me: Fungi are older, possibly much older, than you thought * As the headline says: “Britain passes one week without coal power for first time since 1882” * Discovering a millenium…
Interesting links: April 2019
* SpaceX managed a triple booster landing (!) * In the “somewhat ancient history” category, a look back at Ashurbanipal of Assyria * In the “check out this new animal” category: a giant ancient her…
Monthly recap (April 2019)
Major updates: * Couple of hikes with Shivi and Tara, including one over-ambitious one * Tara had her first surgical operation :-( … an endoscopy … and it turns out she has to be on a gluten-free d…
Monthly recap (March 2019)
Major updates: * Winter => Spring, finally * Great mini-weekend trip to Asilomar/Pacific Grove Minor updates: * Red-tape-y stuff around passport renewal/visas * Some attempts at improving pe…
Interesting links: March 2019
* Headline from the Register: “Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster” * Random weirdness: liquid mercury fo…
Monthly recap (February 2019)
Major updates: * Finished my second 1000-piece puzzle (details later) * Disney on Ice with Tara Minor updates: * Trying to get Tara familiar with Checkers * Daily 5-minute meditation for a mont…
Interesting links: February 2019
* Stumbled across Notion (seems incredibly useful, and clearly one of the apps that seem to herald our post-file future, but for me, still in a trial mode) * Learnt of the story of Anna Akhmatova *…
Monthly recap (January 2019)
Major updates: * None? Minor updates: * Getting back from India * Low fitness … * Quarterly trip to Barnes&Noble, some new books * Fun pottery outing with team at work * Cold weather, dow…
Interesting links: January 2019
* Getting a spacecraft to travel several dozen million miles, and start orbiting a small space rock in a one-mile radius is no mean feat * This one house in LA connects movies as far apart as House…
Interesting links: December 2018
* Mandatory Octopus story * On “efficiency” in human languages * Favorably comparing Tumblr to Twitter (I’m not convinced …) * About “brain-eating amoebas” * Sometimes it pays to have a good grad…