Yesterday we went out for dinner, then had a private tour of Yerkes Observatory, up in Williams Bay, WI.
Yesterday we went out for dinner, then had a private tour of Yerkes Observatory, up in Williams Bay, WI.
In my recent article about Jack Ma [stderr] I was horrified by the way the camera and interview format dwelt on the interesting and important rich guys, and pretty much edited out a young woman who was also on the panel. Who is she? What has she done?
Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma, has some interesting observations on America.
… I’m going to a small conference up in Chicago the next couple days. So I’ll be driving (to avoid the homeland security fol-de-rol) and otherwise may be too occupied to say much. If I seem uncharacteristically quiet, that’s what’s what. It doesn’t mean I hate you, or you’re the last commenter standing. Whether I post or not is going to depend on my activity level at the event.
It came to my attention that one of the FtBloggers doesn’t like squirrels.
Caine has a post over at Affinity [aff] about Valley Fever – a poor person’s disease.
Charles Stross’ book Accellerando has a large number of absolutely brilliant projections of the future of trolling.
This posting will not contain spoilers, so don’t worry. There are weaponizable ideas in this posting that I am not encouraging you to do, because not all things that can be done are worth doing.
Sometimes, you encounter an annoying person who is not arguing honestly with you; someone who just wants to show you how clever or tenacious they are.
Actually, they are tedious, not clever, but your problem then becomes a matter of explaining that to them.
The talented Ieva Skrebele [avestra] did me a tribal badger icon. You’ve probably seen it in the small form already, but it’s worth a bigger look.
Back in October last year, I posted about the Russians’ deploying TOS-1 “Buratino” thermobaric multi-launch rocket systems. [stderr]