Snow on the roof ... and sunshine means icicles !  We've got them all around the house.  The biggest one is around 5' long, but I...

Decadence in Paradise...   So it's lunchtime, and we're hungry.  We have no particular plans for a meal.  What to do? We started w...

What is this “Superbowl” thing I keep reading about?   :)

What on earth is this?   Well, it's not on Earth – it's on Mars, recently imaged by the Curiosity rover.  What do you suppose made...

Why bad science papers live on...   Good science isn't as friction-free as we'd like it to be.  This explains why so many thoroughl...

Don't be too impressed ... with that fancy safe you bought.  Most of the safes sold to consumers ( all of them selling for under $1,...

Road train...   A somewhat different (and, I suspect, much less expensive) alternative to convoys of autonomous trucks – and this alterna...

Just got back ... from another trip up to Hardware Ranch, on a wildlife quest.  We saw quite a few deer, a dipper, a kingfisher, two golden...

Words I did not know ... but which greatly amuse me: Thermaggedon .  People who believe that global warming will cause the world to end are...

Paradise panorama...   I took the panorama below this morning, from the field just south of our home.  The house in the distance on the left...

This is the sort of thing ... that a real geek does for fun.  After reading this , I just wish I'd thought of the problem first :) T...

Paradise ponders...   On Thursday afternoon, we made a mess of roasted fresh veggies (and, in my case, a couple of Trader Joe's chicke...

Geek: there's a lot of truth ... in this short article about the dangers of abstracted, de-duplicated software design.  I've been ...

Chang'e 3 / Yutu photos released...   Chang'e 3 is the Chinese robotic lunar lander that successfully touched down on the moon in...

If your data doesn't support your hypothesis ... in most of science, you change your hypothesis.  Not the global warmists, though!  Ste...

The Canary Islands...   I flew through there once, on a business trip, but it sure didn't look like this!  More info on the photo...

Our sun ... as you've never seen it before!  You'll want to full-screen this one.  From the video comments: It’s always shining...

A planetarium on your computer screen...   Free, too.  The Celestia program is pretty cool, even after just a few minutes of playing with i...

Squirrels vs. houses of worship...   One team clearly has a superior strategy: There were four churches and a synagogue in a small town: a...

All those billions of dollars ... and disastrous incompetence .  Can you imagine any private company surviving with similarly bad perform...