Wow!   We got 1.3 inches of rain overnight, and there's a lot more coming.  When this storm is over and the lawns dry out a little bit, ...

It's raining in Paradise...   It started last night, got intense a couple times during the night (the noise on our steel roof woke me up...

Plans for LEO satellite Internet network filed...   Elon Musk's SpaceX has filed plans for a low earth orbit (LEO) network of satellite...

Salmon in Paradise...   Debbie and I took a drive last night to Cinnamon Creek, the main source of water for Porcupine Reservoir.  We'...

Precipitation in Paradise...   Starting today, we're due to get hammered by rain for the next four days.  The forecast is estimating a t...

The origins of Scrabble...   All new to me .  My family is amongst the addicted, as are many of our friends...

New Pluto photos are pouring in ... from the latest New Horizons data dump.  Astronomers are delighted at not only having all the amazin...

A drug that cures your Hillary problems...   Via my Macified, pistol-packing mama, who worries about me and wants me to feel mo' betta...

Morning in Paradise...   We had a lovely day yesterday.  We went grocery shopping, and then went to the Aggie's Creamery (part of the U...

Gold King mine blowout...   The EPA finally released video footage of the blowout, which (as they've admitted) was entirely caused by ...

Morning in Paradise...   We slept in a bit this morning, as we had nothing scheduled for early in the day.  We had our tea and coffee in the...

Another crazy person...   This time, though, it looks like it might actually be reasonably safe.  Still looks crazy, though!

A marvelous spoof ... of pretentious hipsters...

Another person reacting to ... those magical “glasses” that let color-blind people see colors again...

Dawn has some much better photos ... of those bright spots on Ceres, but the cause of them is still a complete mystery.  What they heck a...

Modules are coming in Java 9 ... read all about it ! When I initially started programming in Java, almost 20 years ago, I made a long lis...

Memristors for sale...   I check every few months to see if you can buy one, and now you can!  They're not on Digi-Key, yet, but at Kn...

Another day, another hydrotherapy session ... and Debbie continues to do well on them.  The therapist today told her that it was time for h...

Comet 67P...   As seen by Rosetta on August 30th...

Some beautiful underwater photos ... all in black and white ...