Decorative contrails

The Fleet Week Air Show on Saturday gave me reason to take out my 50-200mm lens—which hasn’t seen this much action since our Maasai Mara safari in Kenya. We had some errands to run early in the day, so we…

Twilight panorama of San Francisco

180° panorama of San Francisco taken from Twin Peaks

Yosemite in black and white

Stephanie and I visited Yosemite for the first time six years ago, on a whim. We ended up hiking to Vernal Fall, but once there we got into a disagreement about whether to keep going (towards Nevada Fall) or turn…

“Walking-around phone”? What other type is there?

In the months since [releasing Fish, Robin Sloan] has downgraded his “walking-around phone” to a basic Nokia that can only handle texts and calls.

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Have you heard about Baumol’s cost disease? Rafe Colburn linked to a neat article that references the effect: Why cheaper computers lead to higher tuition. #

Very cool: Time-lapse video: Space shuttle Endeavour’s trek across L.A. #

Not sure why I find this so cool, but I do: Mothership HackerMoms: The first women’s hackerspace! #