Wood duck babies ... 23 of them!

Paradise ponders...   Yesterday morning I had three of my neighbor's kids over for their first tutoring session with me, on programming ...

I love these videos...

I'm not sure ... that the majority of young people (say, under 30) in the U.S. will understand that this is parody.  If you do under...

Curiosity is climbing!   The first picture below is looking behind its track, and it's easy to see that Curiosity is gaining some altitu...

Comet 67P, blowing off some steam...   Beautiful photo captured a few days ago by the Rosetta robotic explorer.  It's still orbiting t...

Pluto and Charon...   This is a recently downlinked photo taken by the New Horizons robotic explorer last July.  Look how close to each ot...

Changes on the surface of Titan...   The amazing little robotic explorer Cassini has now been poking around Saturn and its moons long enou...

The world is a complicated place, part 4,992,527...   Mostly it looks hopeless, too.  The subject this time is Myanmar (Burma to those of u...

I think I'm actually immune now ... to the siren lure of the latest and greatest software architecture fad.  I've been increasingly...

If you're interested in politics ... and you don't regularly read the Ace of Spades blog, you're missing a real treat.  Not on...

Old style, new data ... for this map of Mars, from an interesting blog that must have set a record for the longest time between posts.  ...

A really nice surprise...   After we went to bed last night, but while we were still awake (reading, both of us), I got a text message from ...

Bright black holes?   A fascinating read for anyone interested in cosmology...

Comet dust...   Literally!  These tiny grains of dust from Comet 67P were captured by instruments on the Rosetta spacecraft ...

The government is about to screw something up again ...   That was my first thought when I saw this headline: Curbside recycling may get s...

A million people at risk?   That's one estimate of how many people might be killed if the Mosul Dam (in northern Iraq) collapses.  Th...

Maybe, just maybe, there really is a serious criminal investigation underway...   I speak of the DOJ's investigation of Hillary Clinton...

A couple of busy days in Paradise...  Yesterday morning my brother Scott emailed with some not-so-great news.  He'd heard awful noises e...

As a manager and executive ... I heard some version of this so many times: employees (or prospective employees) just not believing that t...