Monthly Archives: November 2022
Air travel
I recently flew round trip from Los Angeles to Boston, the width of an entire continent. On the outbound flight I had a middle seat and absolutely no one near me opened a window for the entire flight. Air travel is a modern miracle. For thousands of years, humans locked to the sky and surely…
Borders and boundaries
We all learn about shifting, borders in elementary school. Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the Holy Roman Empire (neither very holy nor Roman as it turns out), Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, they have all come and gone in different ways. I intellectually know that national borders are not permanent, but things have been relativity stable in my lifetime…
Mt. Wilson
I’ve never really liked homepages. I don’t want to see the news, nor do I care for a version of my browsing history to show up and be reminded of all the websites I click on too much. I had a fun idea a couple of weeks ago though to set set my homepage to…
Failure Mode
A few things to keep in mind if you have a major test failure: Take a big deep breath and don’t touch anything. Our inclination as engineers is always to poke things and try to fix it right away. That is a bad idea. Leave the room. Go home if its the end of the…