Monthly Recap (Jun 2020)
Major updates * A few interesting excursions (picnic in Lexington reservoir and Loch Lomond, an afternoon at Greyhound Rock Beach. * Trips to parks (Tara playing, farewell to a close friend, some s…
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Generally Interesting Links- June 2020
* The latest (and probably the last 😕) sequel to The Trip is out * File this under “labor of love”: Dune, the “novel cut” * A thorough review of spacecrafts in science fiction * An overview of Fu…
Monthly Recap (May 2020)
Major updates * Tara got the hang of biking (or at least balancing) … and also had her first big fall from it Minor updates * Sidewalk chalk coloring * Played more Catan * Doodling * Watched…
Monthly recap (April 2020)
Major updates: * Continuing to work from home, scattered, sleepy :-/ Minor updates: * Picked up and posted a little app I had made last year * Hair cutting experiment (using this) * Couple…
Interesting Links: April 2020
* Heh, BioShock: the collection (!) * A 210,000-year old human skull * On the economic impact of the coronavirus * On how Leo Tolstoy’s children’s stories aren’t considered “safe for kids” these d…
Interesting links: March 2020
* Fascinating account of the series whose artwork inspired Star Wars: Valerian * A catalog of various “spreadsheet-based screw-ups” * I was shocked I’ve never heard of “the mother of Chinese comput…
Monthly recap (March 2020)
Major updates: * WFH !! 😞 * Discovered Comixology 😀 Minor updates: * Bunch of “virtual playdates”(what a concept!) * Lots of Playmobil sets * Tara finally got the hang of Lego, so … yeah…
Monthly recap (February 2020)
Major updates: * (none ?) Minor updates: * I forgot to write this last month, and … I’m already a little vague on the details, which is … why these are so important! * Took Tara climbing at…
Interesting links: February 2020
* An excellent book review by Peter Thiel (okay, more than that) * Another thing universally felt, and then “discovered”: the polarization of reality * The “out-of-Africa” date has been pushed back…
Monthly recap (January 2020)
Major updates: * Visited Kennedy Space Center! (only got a few hours, but still …) * Went on the first cruise of my life (in the Bahamas … also, learnt that I’m not really a “cruise person”) M…
Interesting links: January 2020
* “The rise and fall of New york city …” * On the fractured sense of time in the 2010s * Turns out this building near where I work is a “Silicon Valley” prop * On how hard it is to truly forget th…
Interesting links: December 2019
* The tedious, annoying, banal “crypto-grifters” on the Blockchain cruise * There are still new Nazca lines to be discovered! * On the extent of “trolling by bots” on Twitter * On Trump’s strangel…