Category Archives: General

No, you didn’t read that title wrong. In fact, it’s probably causing you as much confusion as it caused me when I was eight. I grew up in the 1960′s, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I started Kindergarten in 1962, a year … Continue reading →

I don’t know if it’s appropriate or inappropriate to be talking about this subject after the tragedies recently in the news. But I’m troubled, and angry, and sad — and disgusted, and appalled, and then sad some more. I doubt … Continue reading →

Cold fusion seems to be picking up steam. A NASA scientist has now weighed in on this, Dennis Bushnell of Langley Research Center, and he seems to think there’s something to it. There’s even a first theoretical framework for it, … Continue reading →

Today is fun with LaTeX! No, not rubber gloves, you naughty person. LaTeX, the mathematics formatting program. But we can’t do math without a math problem, right? So let’s ask a math question: what does 2% annual growth of the … Continue reading →

I commented on someone else’s blog a few weeks back that my personal concern for the future was not so much survival, as end-of-life. I remarked that I see elder care getting infinitely worse as the US empire slowly declines; when my … Continue reading →