What I didn't read while preparing for Monday's demo
Sometimes, when I'm really busy, I click on articles I want to read. Right now I have a lot tabs open:Business Insider cites a (dubious) study that says smart people are more likely to stay up late and...
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Amazon Air
Amazon this month launched the first of what it plans to comprise a fleet of 40 cargo planes to support its Prime delivery service. From their blog:Now, we see the same opportunity to innovate in...
View ArticleClimate change is World War III
So says New Republic writer Bill McKibben:We’re used to war as metaphor: the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on cancer. Usually this is just a rhetorical device, a way of saying, “We need to...
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Later, when I'm done with all this coding...
Some articles to read:Trump, the single best example of the Dunning-Kruger effect since Dunning and Kruger identified it, thinks he can end Chicago's crime wave in a week. Right.Also, there is no...
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The slow death of Cairo, Illinois
The UK's Daily Mail has a decent explanation and creepy photos of how the southernmost city in Illinois went from a thriving (and historical) port to a nearly-abandoned shell in 50 years:The town's...
View ArticleBanning PowerPoint at universities
Amen:Overreliance on slides has contributed to the absurd belief that expecting and requiring students to read books, attend classes, take notes and do homework is unreasonable.Courses designed around...
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Last night at Wrigley
The Cubs actually won, and it was a great night for a ballgame:Also, I'm digging my new LG G5. That kind of photo is not what I'd expect from a mobile phone.
View ArticleLast flight of the Mad Dog N9401W
Airways magazine has the heartwarming story of American Airlines MD-80 N9401W heading off to retirement in New Mexico:This aircraft, and 19 others, were part of a symbolic retirement.A 20-aircraft...
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Hanging out at the airport
On my trip home from Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago, I came across this lovely girl at the MSP airport:Didn't get to say hi, but ain't she sweet?
View ArticleYeah, I called this one
It turns out, no one wants to buy ugly big houses in the far suburbs. This apparently comes as a shock to their owners:The McMansion style, built between 2001 and 2007 and averaging 3,000 to 5,000...
View ArticleStuff to read later today
It's fascinating how working from home doesn't seem to give me more time to, you know, work. So these have backed up on me, and I hope to read them...someday:Simple Talk has a (year-and-a-half-old)...
View ArticleThe day's posts
So far today, the following have crossed my browser:Donald Trump's campaign actually did set up a policy office, but after the convention most of them quit.Jonathan Chait thinks Matt Lauer completely...
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The El at night
I've been meaning to post this photo from July. No story behind it; I just think it's cool.
View ArticleDem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones
Workers digging London's Crossrail tunnel have helped uncover a 350-year-old mystery about the Great Plague:[T]he Great Plague...killed 100,000 Londoners (roughly a quarter of the city’s population)...
View ArticleDodged a fiery bullet
So, a couple weeks ago, I replaced my LG G4 with an LG G5. I thought about getting the Samsung Galaxy 7, but it was $350 more and didn't really have a lot of extra features. Turns out, it did have one...
View ArticleBeer and Bibles
The Economist has found that craft breweries are inversely correlated with religiosity in the US:Some states are craftier than others. Atop the list of craft breweries per capita is Vermont, with 44 of...
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What ship is that?
At work, I typically sit at an east-facing window on the 35th floor of the Sears Willis Tower. Here's my view:That means I can often see Michigan, Indiana, and everything in between, including very...
View ArticlePoor dead phone
My new LG G5 is now a brick, so I'm back to my slightly-cracked G4.Yesterday, the phone got hot, stopped responding to inputs, and rebooted itself twice in three hours. That's usually the sign of a...
View ArticleIs our Constitution ill?
Garrett Epps, writing for The Atlantic, warns that the advent of Trumpism comes mainly from an erosion of our collective understanding of and belief in the reasons our Constitution was written in the...
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