Showing posts with label nerds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nerds. Show all posts
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Driving to the Moon

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 My 2005 Honda Civic turned 238,900 miles, the median distance to the Moon. PREVIOUSLY ON NECESSARY FACTS ONE LIGHT SECOND   TECHNICAL WRITE...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

Nerdvana: Working with Engineers (and a Scientist)

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Since mid-July, I have been working for an industrial manufacturing firm. We make machines that make things. Of course, everything runs on ...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

A Partial Index of Ideas within this Blog

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I write about whatever interests me.  Below is a representative sample from the 454 previous posts. Language and Thought Art as Orde...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Ahmed Mohamed Doesn't Live Here Any More

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A good news story polarizes friends. Ahmed Mohamed and his family are moving to Qatar after his meeting the President of the United States f...
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Saturday, December 13, 2014

100,000 Page Views

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This blog earned its 100,000th page view on December 10.  The Google metrics are somewhat questionable. I read through all of the numbers pr...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Lovers Offline

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“ Lovers Offline ” Anonymous, Telegraphic Journal , January 15, 1875. (written by a telegraph clerk on the back of a message f...
Monday, February 4, 2013

India Two Point Oh: Amita and Raj

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Both Aristotle and William Graham Sumner pointed out that laws are only expressions of tradition.   To cite the terminology of Thomas Kuh...