With two numbers and a single arithmetic operation ... generate the Fibonacci sequence up to 24 digit results.  How could you possibly do t...

Is this really funny?   A “joke” sent along by my brother Scott: Hillary Clinton goes to a gifted-student primary school in New York to ta...

Ricochet's Daily Shot ...   I've blogged about Ricochet on several occasions.  It's one of my favorite sites, and it's part...

Morning in Paradise...   Two of the dogs (Miki and Race) and I took a brisk morning walk just after 5 am this morning.  Mo'i can only wa...

Doctors on strike...  Via reader Simi L.:

Face-off!   What a cool photo!!

Rosetta looks at ... Comet 67P, yesterday...

Curiosity is looking ... at some interesting Martian geology again...

Morning in Paradise...   The dogs and I went for a walk just before dawn.  It was beautiful...

Eriogonum kennedyi...   This is a variety of wild buckwheat, one of many that are common in southern California.  Via BPOD , of course...

Bomb-sniffing rats...   Reader Simi L. sent this along.  When I first started reading, I thought it was some kind of joke – but it's f...

Progress in Paradise...   Debbie continues her steady improvement.  She no longer looks like I beat her :)  She still hasn't graduated t...

Email I received today...   From Apple: Dear iMac owner, Apple has determined that certain 3TB hard drives used in 27-inch iMac systems ...

A morning in Paradise...   The dogs and I got out on our walk well before sunrise this morning.  We walked by a sprinkler on a recently mo...

What happens when ... a 7 year old kid is playing in a park, within sight of her mom?  Why, you call the cops, take the kid to the polic...

White-faced ibis update...   Yesterday afternoon I got a close, front-lit view of the birds that I had previously speculated were white-fa...

“Not payable.”   So says the governor of Puerto Rico, about the island's $72B in debt.  The threat of a default looms .  The governor is...

Regal cat...   This is Jahar, our Savannah Cat.  We're pretty sure that he believes himself to be a panther, notwithstanding the abund...

Falcon 9 failed...   Dang it!  Elon Musk is already tweeting about the cause – an “overpressure event” in the second stage liquid oxygen ...

Progress in Paradise...   Today is “paperwork” day – time for me to catch up on almost two weeks of accumulated paper.  The pile is getting ...