I haven't posted in a while. Should I even try to explain why? Laziness, apathy, weariness, social disconnection... hard to say any one thing. It's certainly not for lack of things to write about. Here's a quick summary of all that's new with me ( Read more... )

No one else I know (as far as I know) has been watching the HBO series The Pacific. But for myself, this has been more exciting than any major movie franchise over the past decade. I know a lot about ww2 history, and yet there's so much I don't know or things I don't know in great depth. By now I have a well rounded picture of warfare over the 20th ( Read more... )

Might as well use it to cure cancer:


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I read Cory Doctorow's review of William Poundstone's Priceless: how our unknowing irrationality confounds the price of everything. It's a very interesting subject and I was moved by Cory's closing paragraph ( Read more... )

Every time I hear about a person in Texas being given some very long prison sentence for drug possession, I can't help but think of all the people given a slap on the wrist, or less, for killing people with their cars.

Most recently, a Bay City man was sentenced to 60 years for having a couple crack rocks (less than a dime bag) in a coat pocket ( Read more... )

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I heard a program on the radio today, and twice in the same program the inaccuracy of people explaining something specific made me cringe ( Read more... )

Here is an example of pedestrian and vehicle tracking on a 2011 Volvo S60 prototype which identifies pedestrians, warns the driver, and applies full braking power if the driver doesn't react in time. I love it ( Read more... )

Staying up late again to watch endeavor launch, only to find out I'm nine minutes too late ( Read more... )

I'm waiting for 4:39 am to happen so I will walk out front and try to see the space shuttle launch from here. I've got a browser window open with nasa tv streaming live so I can see when the engines start up and know when to go look.

update: - so much for that!