Going back to the well
I'm re-reading DeMarco & Lister's Peopleware, first published in 1987, to sort out a nagging problem in my own office. Sometimes it's good to review the classics. It turns out, even though...
View ArticleMeant to post yesterday
Four articles I read late in the day and wanted to spike here:Greg Sargent looks at the polling data and concludes that President Trump's lies really aren't working.The lies his organization told about...
View ArticleFalling into the sun is hard
In the geocentric model of how things work, it's really easy for you to fall directly toward Earth. This happens because you are already moving fast enough to have a very small delta vee with the...
View ArticleEddie Lampert strikes again
Eddie Lampert's hedge fund, ESL, is making a bid to buy the only remaining viable piece of Sears from, well, ESL:ESL’s proposal valued Kenmore at $400 million, excluding the impact of cash or debt,...
View ArticleDaily Parker bait, times 3
Of course I'm going to blog about these three articles.First, former George W. Bush speechwriter and lifelong Republican Michael Gerson looks at the culture of celebrity that surrounds the President...
View ArticleLate summer lazy day
The weather today inclined me to spend a lot of time outside in my neighborhood, except for the part that I had to spend inside working on the new Apollo Chorus website. (We're launching this...
View ArticleThe Great Lakes Compact in a drying world
After watching the Aral Sea disaster unfold in the second half of the last century, governors of the states and provinces around the Great Lakes formed a compact to prevent a similar problem in North...
View ArticleTons of plastic in the Great Lakes
Not only do the Great Lakes face threats from thirsty populations outside their basin, but they're also chock full of plastic microparticles:One recent study found microplastic particles—fragments...
View ArticleWeekend!
Lots of running around today doing chores and such. Not that interesting, though I did pick out some paint colors. Right, not that interesting.At least you don't have to watch it dry.
View ArticleThe next war
Via Bruce Schneier, retired USMC Colonel Mark Canclan has authored a report outlining what threats we're likely to face in the next few years, and how to cope with them. He includes some chilling...
View ArticleThe Mindset List, class of 2022
Most people starting college this year were born in 2000. Let that sink in. Then read this:They are the first class born in the new millennium, escaping the dreaded label of “Millennial,” though their...
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I feel the Source!
I mentioned earlier today (yesterday BST) that I sought the Source. Here it is:That monument marks the official head of the River Thames, though in September after a long, dry summer, there isn't a lot...
View ArticleThis might be what someone used to attack us in Cuba
In late 2016, someone apparently attacked American diplomats in Cuba and China with a device that caused people to hear loud sounds and experience concussion-like brain damage. Now, doctors working...
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Funny things I saw in London
This coffee shop, on Bermondsey Street:And this airplane:Actually, the A380 was pretty cool inside, though I may have erred getting an upper-deck seat. Next trip to London, I'll go for a lower-deck...
View ArticleParty like it's 1879
Atlantic editor Adam Serwer draws a straight line between the ways the Redemption court of the 1870s paved the way for the Gilded Age and Jim Crow, and how the Roberts court now (and especially with...
View ArticleLunchtime reading list
While trying to debug an ancient application that has been the undoing of just about everyone on my team, I've put these articles aside for later:Using the example of an automated process that sends...
View ArticleMorning reading list
Before diving back into one of the most abominable wrecks of a software application I've seen in years, I've lined up some stuff to read when I need to take a break:DARPA claims to have developed a...
View ArticleBye bye Beetle
VW will stop making the original People's Car later this year:The streets of American cities were once carpeted in Bugs. From 1968 to 1973, more than a million were sold every year. In 1972, when it...
View ArticleIt pays for itself
President Trump has complained about how much Robert Mueller's investigation has cost the government. After the plea deal reached Friday with Paul Manafort, that should no longer be a problem:If we...
View ArticleFreddie Oversteegen, 1925-2018
Freddie Oversteegen, who died September 5th just one day shy of her 93rd birthday, fought in the Dutch Resistance as a teenager:When she rode her bicycle down the streets of Haarlem in North Holland,...
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