Porcupine reservoir trip...  We took a jaunt up there this evening to see what the fall color and wildlife were like.   There were lots of...

The more data comes back ... from New Horizons, the weirder a place Pluto seems to be.  What the heck is this photo showing us???  More h...

Sometimes it's really amazing ... how long a software bug can exist before someone finds and fixes it.  Google, in this case ...

Paradise ponders...   Yesterday afternoon, as planned, we headed out to Blacksmith Fork canyon to gawk at fall color and wildlife.  The co...

This is awesome: The Brain of a Social Justice Warrior (SJW), or Progressive.

Quote of the day...   In The Onion , reporting on the pope's visit to Philadelphia: After concluding his prepared remarks, the pope re...

Greatest regex trick ever?   Well, maybe .  It's a pretty darned good one, anyway.  I used regexes extensively in my last job (with Serv...

No sign of Bucky (updated)...   Shortly after making the post below, the boys (Miki and Race) and I went out for our walk.  As we walked ove...

Scientists didn't really know what to expect ... when New Horizons took a close look at Pluto.  Nevertheless, the data coming back ar...

Good food is really hard to beet!   Our neighbor Tim D. came over a couple days ago with a bag full of fresh vegetables from his garden.  Am...

The smell of new-mown hay in Paradise...   And right in our front yard, too!  I forgot to mention this earlier, but yesterday afternoon wh...

Hill of Crosses...   I ran across this article about a famous “Hill of Crosses” in Lithuania, and it reminded me of a similar hill (thou...

WWII colorized photo collection...   The one at right is just one of 50 .  Even for someone well-versed in the history (and probably even ...

Paradise ponders...   Yesterday I dug five more big holes (4' square, 30" deep) where our paper birches will be planted next Tuesda...

My pistol-packing, Macified mama ... has some zinnias!

Farm machinery ... is a modern technological marvel, under-appreciated by just about everyone who is not a farmer.  Non-farmers I know ke...

This chart nicely summarizes ... one of the best arguments against anthropogenic global warming: that temperatures are not , in fact, at al...

Happy dogs!

Quote of the day...   Professor Eben Moglen, of Columbia University's law school: Proprietary software is an unsafe building material....

Got $46M burning a hole in your pocket?   There's a beautiful piece of land available if you do, at the bargain price of just $3,600 ...