Kings of the mountain...   Last fall, our friend and neighbor Tim D. piled all the soil excavated for our barn's foundation up on the ...

Flags on President's day...   The local Boy Scout troop provides a service to local homeowners on patriotic holidays: they post flags ...

Paperless, updated...   About six weeks ago, I posted about our adventure in switching to paperless records storage.  We've just gone o...

A switching mystery, resolved...   Yesterday I replaced a few more electrical switches.  I've been chipping away at this project, workin...

The humor of Ronald Reagan...   Reader Simi L. sends along this delightful compilation. Just seeing his face made me feel better about m...

Too cool for school?   That's what friend and former colleague Aleck L. says about this collection of math-explaining graphics , like ...

Pleasant, configurable background noise in your browser...   It's free, and it's pretty darned good: Noisli .  It's been running...

M106: strange and beautiful...   Via APOD, of course.  Hi-res version here .

Oh, the 2016 presidential election is going to be so much fun!  Maureen Dowd, a faithful progressive columnist, published a column yesterd...

Peripatetic mindscapes...   Long ago I observed that most of the engineers I worked with approached problems in a similar manner.  It's ...

A lazy day...   We accomplished absolutely nothing yesterday.  We spent the entire day curled up together on our love seat, binge-watching e...

Quote of the day...   From Bruce Schneier, in a post on Lawfare Blog : There’s a principle here worth discussing at length. I’m not talkin...

Well, this is an alternative, I suppose...   To:    Rope.    Tree.    Congresscritters.    Some assembly required. Via my mom...

Olsynium douglasii ...   Via BPOD , of course...

Oh, we had a lovely afternoon...   Our friends and neighbors Tim and Jeannie D. surprised us yesterday morning – they called and asked if we...

Wine run...   One of the few less-wonderful things about living in Northern Utah is the dearth of interesting places to buy wine (and, worse...

The giant middle finger...   Megan McArdle, in a recent post about the irrelevance of Scott Walker's dropping out of college, said this...

Heliotropium angiospermum ...   Via BPOD , of course...

Geek: regular expression insanity...   Those readers who know me as a programmer know that I have an unnatural affinity for regular expressi...

The third law of regulatory bureaucracies...   I wish I could claim credit for this, but I cannot.  I've long since forgotten where I fi...