Yesterday we went out for dinner, then had a private tour of Yerkes Observatory, up in Williams Bay, WI.
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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.
Is this the right room for an argument
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.
Is this the right room for an argument
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]