Author: Mike Garrity
Danny Cooke’s Films
We were watching some of Danny Cooke’s films last night. We really enjoyed these two. They’re both about things which used to be industrial production technology, but only exist today for doing art. You...
The Economist on Romney on Detroit
Our former Governor had an op-ed in the Detroit News the other day arguing, well I can’t quite figure out what he’s arguing. He seems to be trying to take credit for something he...
Flying Pyramids
It’s been years since I worked in Fluid Dynamics, but I still love a good fluids paper; especially a good unsteady flow solution. Check out this one which was just highlighted on ScienceNow. You...
Tim Hunkin
I mentioned the Fixers blog here a couple of weeks ago. If you didn’t start following them then, you might at least want to go check out their recent post about one of my...
Coming Apart
You’ve probably heard that Charles Murray has a new book out. If you remember the controversy surrounding some of his earlier books, you probably won’t be surprised to hear that there’s been quite a...
Kitchen Shelves
I spent yesterday installing these new shelves in the kitchen. They give us a little more storage space, but mostly they just make the area where we took down the overhead cupboard look a...