I have not heard of Sgt. Kristopher Kane of El Cajon before I read this story about his actions: On the morning of Nov. 10 that year, Kane...

Here's an excellent guide to hiring a programmer , full of advice that resonates strongly with my own experience. Here's #2 of 6 in...

Some Jamulians found a way to thank some of the firefighters who traveled here from other states to help us this past October: Grateful to t...

The Darwin Awards are given each year to “…salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves f...

Neo-Neocon has a fascinating post up today on moral relativism . The lead: Moral relativism is the idea that there is no absolute good and ...

If you're not familiar with the issue, this story is going to seem really odd: Ms. magazine refuses to run the ad at right. You'd ...

The Hubble telescope has discovered something most unlikely: a double Einstein ring. A single Einstein ring is caused by a pair of galaxie...

Of sorts, anyway. The Wall Street Journal has opened up a large part of its web site to everybody, for free. This is a direct consquence o...

Well, 11 of 14 people got last week's puzzler right – you can build an entire computer using nothing more than two-input NAND gates (and...

From the anti-market liberal minds that control the California Assembly comes this nanny-state gem of a proposal : What should be controvers...

Some wags would say it isn't possible to dumb down California any more than it already is. And others (including myself) would argue th...

As previously noted, my web server (which hosts the Lawson Valley Weather page and the Lyons Peak Camera sites, amongst many others) is down...

I hope Warren at Climate Skeptic will forgive me for stealing his entire post: The chart below is from the Cryosphere Today and sho...

One of the more consistent liberal memes is the idea that gun control will lead to more crimes. The consistent conservative/libertarian res...

Several of my readers have recently sent me a link to a very interesting report ( American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and...

At right is a graph showing the rainfall in Lawson Valley over the past few days. The storm total of 5.85" (about 15 cm) is still hard...

No, I have not disappeared from the face of the earth – I've just been busy! The current rain storm has brought us sustained gentle rain...

Last week's puzzler asked this: at about what altitude is the air pressure half that of sea level? The answer is 18,000 feet, which alm...

From Coyote Blog : First and foremost, the state of California demonstrates itself to be just as financially incompetent as any condo-flippi...

One of the many challenges in software development is avoiding complexity that serves no good purpose. As a particular program matures, and...