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...
Random Ramblings from the Garrity Family
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...
MIT’s Open Courseware is a wonderful thing. Recently I’ve been watching Erik Demaine’s lectures on the math behind origami. They’re really fun lectures, and it’s a very interesting subject. I love the sense of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I’ve mentioned iFixit here before (link1, link2). Their website is a great source of information about what’s inside your favorite gadgets and what you can do to fix them when they break. They’ve just...
Chris and I were both a bit concerned a couple of years ago when MIT announced that 6.001 was changing from Scheme to Python. Luckily Alex Vandiver has been keeping the SICP flame alive...
When Mario saw my recent post about different sets of tiles, he asked for details about how I drew them. When I started to clean up the Processing code to give to him, I...
I was pretty bummed when Kodachrome was cancelled. It was my favorite film for many years. Xander Robin just posted this cool documentary about Kodachrome and its last days at Dwayne’s Photo. It does...