Speeding Tickets From Space
The SkyBox cameras in space will revolutionize how we watch things happen on the surface of Earth from now on. There are some good things that will come from this. We will never NOT KNOW how fast the forests are…
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The Leisure Class is Getting Bored
The trend over my lifetime has been towards reducing the effort it takes to do ____ and you fill in the blank here–from getting across town or the continent to buying or reading a book or making a cake. The…
It’s All Connected: Ecology of Things
If we decided to (and I’m not placing any bets) we could use the coming interconnectedness of things and the information that provides to first understand and then correct the ways we waste, pollute, and despoil the very basis of…
Explaining Everything
I thought maybe that post title would grab your attention off the interwebs–a place long on information and not so long on synthesis. And yet, from those same web-deeps from time to time comes a thread of woven thought that…
Creek Jots ~ 28 Feb 14
We can define a second. But time–not so much. Some of you know Jacob. He’s started telling the beginning of his story at Life, the Universe et Cetera. He will soon be thinking about his place in time. It’s slippery…
Stop the Presses!
Actually, the presses are still six weeks off (hopefully not more, so I can have books for the Mt Rogers Naturalist Rally May 8.) But I’ve changed the structure from “categorized” to “clustered”. I was able to sort 96 personal…
A Few Apropos Apps
First: Thanks to all those visitors we found gathered outside our door this morning when we went out to see what the commotion was all about. Let me know if any of those pictures come back all right. Been a…
Tongues in Cheek(s): a Grammar Question
Image via WikipediaOkay wordsmiths not eating turkey quite yet today, I have a question of language–more particularly, of singular versus plural in phrases, thusly: If more than one of them shows up at court, we don’t speak of “attorney at…
Geekly Weekly 6 Sept 08
In my never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American Way (well maybe not the recent AW) I’ve explored a few more tools since the last Geekly Weekly, and since not a one of you is begging me to share,…
Time Suck or Time Saver?
The links and alerts come in as I boot up (with the Mac, simply move the mouse to instantly wake up) the computer, stumble through the dark for coffee and come back to a page of rabbit trails. Most are…
To Boldly Go: Space Walking & the Epson 2880
There is now a new toaster oven sitting on my desk! Well, at least after Ann makes a quilted cover for it as she offered, that’s what it will look like. The Epson 2880 is rather large-seeming after many years…
Things: A New Printer
The story of stuff is a tale I enter reluctantly but far too often. Try as I might to swim against the current of temptation and want, I will yield to the flow of consumerism and rationalize that I must…
The Nature Gap
Don’t make it any wider this Christmas. Give children toys, not devices–things that encourage engagement with other children, their muscles, and nature. Is there a problem? Between 1997 and 2003, the proportion of children ages 9 to 12 who spent…
My First Mac?
Dear me, I’m weakening. The marriage bonds of PC with Mac software and hardware has enticed me. I never thought I’d do it. I haven’t yet. But I feel the gravitational pull of Apple drawing me into its orbit! There’s…