New backups in Paradise...   Well, that was totally painless!  The hardest part of bringing up our new backup RAID was ... unpacking it.  T...

Progress in Paradise...   It was so beautiful here this morning that I just couldn't stand to work inside, despite the fact that all my ...

Are medical screening tests valuable?  The answer isn't always as clear as you might think.  Study the chart for breast cancer screenin...

I can scarcely believe ... that I can do this in my browser!  A realtime, interactive, 3D display of all tracked objects in orbit around...

Evening walk in Paradise...   Just Miki, Race, and I tonight.  I let Mo'i wander about in our back yard at his own pace, stopping when h...

Asphodelus aestivus...   Common name: summer asphodel.  The bee ain't bad, either!  Via BPOD , of course...

Morning in Paradise, in the shadow of the mountain edition...   Took the two younger dogs (Miki and Race) out for our morning perambulation....

Floating point follies...   I ran across this blog post in my morning reading, and as I was reading it I thought “Jeez — this is like a lit...

Bullwinkle...   Our neighbors have named the moose who visited us a couple days ago.  Here's a photo Alan L. took with an actual camera,...

To the voters of America...

Evening in Paradise...   Took the dogs for their evening walk, but we didn't go very far as Mo'i wasn't feeling like it.  At o...

This guy set a new record ... for being completely insane.  I don't know how you can top this one!

Progress in Paradise...   We actually had some progress today, on wiring up my new air compressor.  I ran most of the 240 volt circuit toda...

Pictures from Paradise...  The first photo below is attempting to show the beautiful droplets hanging from green berries on a tree I haven...

It's no longer spritzing ... it's raining .  We've already had a tenth inch, in just the past 10 minutes or so.  Go, rain!

Morning in Paradise...   For some reason I've slept particularly well the past couple of nights.  Generally speaking, a solid night'...

Oh, noz!   New Horizons is having problems .  I sure hope they get this resolved before the flyby, which is only 9 days away!

Curiosity ... is looking at odd rocks on Mars ...

Zeta Ophiuchi...   Gorgeous false-color photograph taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared wavelengths.  Via APOD , of course.  F...

Intuition...   I ran across this blog post in my reading this morning.  It caught my attention mainly because it has a Feynman story in it;...