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A book I’m currently reading, “The Innovators” (Walter Isaacson), was detailing a chronological history of key moments in technology and I was surprised to see Gatlinburg, TN get a mention. Apparently in October 1967, at the Mountain View Hotel, the Association for Computing Machinery held their Symposium on Operating System principles and it was where…

I just bought an EV after looking into them for the past 5 years or so. There are a lot of terms to learn before you can even shop, like… It’s been an interesting project, lots to learn. You have to figure out charging…L1 plugs into a regular outlet, charges very slow. L2 is much…

The Stoics give us a marvelous concept: the Inner Citadel. It is this fortress, they believed, that protects our soul. Though we might be physically vulnerable, though we might be at the mercy of fate in many ways, our inner domain is impenetrable. As Marcus Aurelius put it (repeatedly, in fact), “stuff cannot touch the…

“Your independent will alone cannot effectively discipline you against your center”. – Habit 3: “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” I am (again) re-reading key sections of the book. I always get something new. This gets a longer explanation in the book, but paraphrasing it means if your core (your values, principles, etc.) is…

I just did some reading up on the “Kraken” sea monster, probably most famous for its appearance in the “Clash of the Titans” movie and was quite surprised to learn that it was NOT a Greek myth at all but a Norse one. In the original Greek myth, Perseus rescues the princess from a sea…

The history of cornbread is quite a maize…you might even say it is a-maizing. Corn was first cultivated in Mexico thousands of years ago and soon spread north to native american tribes in what would one day become the United States. When European settlers arrived they quickly adopted corn as a staple crop and with…

So Pluto is actually smaller than our moon…actually, it’s smaller than several moons in the solar system (Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io, Europa) and several of those moons are arguably more interesting than Pluto (Titan has a dense atmosphere and liquid methane lakes, Europa has a subsurface ocean beneath its ice sheet). Some scientists think Pluto…

 This is a good poem by Rosebud Ben-Oni You should read it.

 When I was a kid, one of my former elementary school teachers published a book of poems, “Through a Glass Darkly”. We owned a copy and I read through it several times, so fascinated that someone we actually knew had a book published. It was like we knew a celebrity. I loved the title of…