Exploratorium
After Yosemite, we spent some time in San Francisco. One of the highlights of that stop was a visit to the Exploratorium. The Exploratorium is sort of the granddaddy of all modern science museums....
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BorrowLenses
When we were planning our trip to Yosemite, I realized that when we drove there from the airport, we’d be going right by borrowlenses.com. I had heard of them through their ads on various...
Clouds Rest
From almost any place in or around Yosemite valley, you can look up and see Half Dome‘s distinctive shape. There’s one place where the view is different though. Clouds Rest isn’t the highest place...
CDPH vs. UC Berkeley
You probably saw in the news that the California Department of Public Health stopped UC Berkeley’s Bring Your Genes to Cal program. That was an interesting program which the school had put together this...
Minesweeper & P!=NP
You’ve probably heard about Vinay Deolalikar’s proof that P != NP. Are you confused about what it means? Ian Stewart has a nice explanation which involves minesweeper. Minesweeper is actually an interesting little game...
Right To Repair
The news from Beacon Hill recently has all been about some gambling bill, but there was also something important going on. The Senate passed a Right to Repair law in July. Unfortunately, the other...
Goodbye Google Wave
Google announced yesterday that they’ve stopped development on Google Wave. I’ve been using it to collaborate with widely distributed folks on one of my projects and it’s worked pretty well for us. On the...
Doctorow’s First Law
Cory Doctorow had an interesting article in Publisher’s Weekly yesterday. It’s an update on one of the subjects he was talking about at the book signing we went to a few months ago. He’s...
Shakespeare On The Common
Last night we went to Shakespeare on the Common. Every summer, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company puts on a series of plays on an open air stage on Boston Common. It’s one of our favorite...
MIG Welding
Today we set up our latest toy and started figuring out how to use it. Peter took a welding course recently, so he was teaching the rest of us. We started by using flux...
