Washington, DC
As I looked out of the back window of a Lyft as I crossed the Potomac, it was the first
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How to take better photos
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First off, it's better to think about
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NG-11 Space launch trip day 2
Day 2 was the big one and all signs pointed to everything going smoothly with perfect weather conditions for a
We have liftoff
Everything since October 1957, when Sputnik streaked across the sky, has led to where we are today.
Sputnik led to
NG-11 space launch trip: day 1
Yesterday, I flew to Washington DC, then drove about 3.5 hours to get near NASA's flight facility
The wisdom of the twitter crowds
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Converting phone lines to ethernet in newer homes
I live in a house built in 2005, and when we got rid of our landline around 2012, I knew
Empathy and Invisibilia
The new episode of Invisibilia is at times both incredible but ultimately, frustrating to me.
It starts with an interesting
Woodburn Oregon Tulip Festival 2019
This morning I got up around 5:30AM to get to the Woodburn Tulip Festival around 7AM to try and
A glorious pi hole
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American healthcare still sucks
I picked up my prescriptions yesterday and my new health plan gave me a 90 day supply of pills. This
Stubborn thinking
There's a glorious plan for a rails-to-trails project in my neck of the woods in Oregon. It'
Snowy morning
Optimizing for outrage
I'm dismayed to see Twitter and Quora optimizing for outrage lately in their quests to keep users engaged
Content moderation has no easy answers
This morning I read Casey Newton's expose of Facebook moderation problems at the Verge.
Let me be clear
Two months with Blue Apron
I'm coming to around to meal kits about five years too late, but in an effort to help