I’m really attracted to the whole "life hacking" movement. Definitely a tinkerer by nature, there’s something really satisfying about learning how others have optimized the mundane details of modern living and improved their quality of life as a result. So I read the usual sites, constantly fiddle with "trusted systems" and spend a lot of [...]
February 4, 2008 – 8:21 pm
Although perhaps too much is being made of Super Tuesday, given that (at least for the Dems) it will likely end in a wash, I think it’s going to be a fascinating preview of the general.
Yes, I know that Primary voters do not equal General voters…but that’s where it gets interesting. That equation is changing, [...]
January 1, 2008 – 7:28 am
Here’s to filing away a great 2007. Let’s all have a wonderful 2008!
December 30, 2007 – 11:19 pm
Hi! Thanks for sticking with me here on the Planet. Although 2007 slipped by with precious little in the way of content, we did add one little orbital (that’s why I’ve been so scarce around here).
I do appreciate you hanging with the feed, or dropping by occasionally. There’s lots of good stuff to come in [...]
We’ve had our disagreements, our rough patches. We’ve occasionally been estranged. I’ve showered it with money (and spilled coffee). It’s taken me to work and back, and once saved my life. It’s blasted my favorite driving songs, and brought my daughter home. And as of tonight, my VW and I have traveled 100,000 miles [...]
December 19, 2006 – 10:24 pm
[this post is my contribution to the Carl Sagan memorial blog-a-thon. Celebrating Sagan is a great compilation of similar posts. Carl's son and Truly Excellent Writer Nick Sagan weighs in. However, if you read only one other Sagan-related post, please read this poignant and deeply moving remembrance from Sagan's widow, Ann Druyan.]
I can’t think of [...]
November 7, 2006 – 7:15 am
I’ve been meaning to post on this for almost a month, but it seems like today would be good for a healthy dose of perspective. The image below was taken by the Cassini spacecraft as it travels the Saturn system, approximately 930 million miles from Earth. Image scale is ~155 miles per pixel. (full res [...]
September 19, 2006 – 2:25 pm
The geniuses in charge of the MacArthur "genius" grant have outdone themselves this year.
My three favorites:
George Saunders!!!!!
David Macauly! (of The Way Things Work fame)
John Zorn!
And lots of other people who do things I don’t understand. Sweet.
Thursday is "World Jump Day." World what day? It’s "an attempt to drive planet Earth into a new orbit, by letting millions of people jump."
No, really.
"But doesn’t that seem like a pretty terrible idea?" you might ask. Natch: "Scientific research has proven that this change in planetary positioning would very likely stop global warming, extend [...]
Truly, truly the coolest videos you’ll watch all day: two views (looking up and looking down) of last week’s Discovery launch, as seen from the fancy-pants new cameras mounted on the shuttle’s booster rockets.
They’re each about twelve minutes long, and encompass the SRB’s entire flight from takeoff to splashdown. There are a few slightly boring [...]
