Paradise ponders...   Well, we're almost packed for our Hawai'i trip – just have some last minute packing of electronics tomorrow ni...

Melotte 15 ... via APOD , of course.  Those are false colors, of course – but 'tis beautiful nonetheless...

Jupiter from below...   “Below” here means above Jupiter's south pole.  This image was created by a “citizen scientist” using camera d...

Botany Photo of the Day is back!   After a hiatus of over a year, this daily email with beautiful photos linked is back !  Hooray!  At rig...

How on earth does Scott Adams do it?   Today's cartoon (below) captures perfectly one of my main complaints about the current engineerin...

Model X update...   I took the photo at right just a couple minutes ago.  We've got fog here, the temperature is in the low 40s, it...

Paradise ponders, surprises and hectic days edition...   I can't believe I missed two sequential days of posting.  I can't remember ...

Yet another dichotomy...   After an email conversation with a couple of friends, I've learned that the world of free electronic design a...

Some electronics fun...   The photo at right (taken with my iPhone peering through a 2x magnifier) shows the current state of one of my pr...

Model X update...   I just finished installing a software update.  This one promises to enable some more auto-driving functionality.  Though...

Super bowl?   Two readers emailed to ask why I haven't been commenting on the super bowl (or, as I like to call it, the “stupor bowl”) g...

More Milo ... this time on Tucker Carlson's show.  Again, excellent.

I just felt ... the strangest thing!  I walked from our house into our barn, about 50'.  I wasn't wearing a jacket or a hat.  It...

If you've ever done any electronic logic design ... then most likely you already know that ROMs can be used to replace any collection...

Paradise ponders, outdoor liquid water edition...   Yesterday morning was cold and very foggy (see photos below).  It wasn't cold enough...

Animated circuit simulator...   At right is a screenshot I took from an animated circuit simulator I ran across yesterday.  It's calle...

Things every hacker once knew...   This is a fascinating essay by Eric S. Raymond .  Almost everything in it is well known to me, though I ...

Model X update...   We've had our Tesla Model X now for just over a month.  How do we like the car after having had it for a while? Ve...

Random morning thought...   While I was reading the news this morning about the 63,411 things that Trump did last night, a memory surfaced: ...

Milo's response ... to the Berkeley riots.  It's excellent.  In particular, I like his point about the irony of this happening at...