Paradise ponders...   Well, the generator folks showed up yesterday as promised, and much progress was made.  Some photos below shows the wo...

Japanese tea garden ... in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.  It's the oldest Japanese garden in the U.S., dating from 1894.  I v...

Paradise ponders...   Today is the great “wire up the generators” day.  We'll be without power for a few hours while they're connect...

Paradise ponders...   I have great readers!  Yesterday I posted about not understanding how Gaussian elimination worked, and reader Richard ...

99.99% air...   Boeing's new metal...

At the cannibal cafe...   Via my brother Scott: A cannibal was walking through the jungle and came upon a restaurant operated by a fellow ...

Learned something fun today ... a method for solving a system of linear equations called “Gaussian elimination”.  Something I'm working...

Paradise ponders...   Well, last night we had a lovely dinner with our friends Jim and Suzy F., at the Maddox Ranch House .  Debbie and I ha...

The logical conclusion...   Bill Whittle.  Listen to the man...

Paradise ponders...   Our neighbors Alan and Nikki L. invited us to the local Mormon church's “fall festival” last night.  Actually the ...

Wanted: Speaker of the House...   Via friend, former colleague, sufferer with my code, and reader Tim B.: With the clown collection curr...

Curiosity's tires are looking a little shabby...   A recent photo from the Mars rover.  The drivers are being very careful these days,...

This is so stupid!   First, the headline: Wind now competes with fossil fuels. Solar almost does. Why do I say this is stupid ?  It soun...

This is awesome!  The Chromoscope – an interactive map of the sky in various wavelengths of radiation, from gamma rays to radio waves...

Here's a great rant ... by Yossi Kreinin , whom I don't know at all, about the breezy criticisms leveled by pundits about conventio...

Progress in Paradise...   As planned, Tyler Thompson and his crew from Golden Spike Electric got started on our backup generator project.  ...

Paradise ponders...   I took my usual morning walk, but with only one dog (Race), as Miki has a limp and we're letting him take it easy....