Scott Hill
Scott Hill
Scott W. Hill
I believe that one should control one’s writing and photographs, and this site is my home on the web for those things. I frequently post them other places too, but they generally start here. Other platforms are ephemeral—as evidenced by the many broken links here to things I found interesting in the past, but which weren’t cared for by their publisher—so I try not to post elsewhere, except as a copy.
Latest Posts
On one hand, the idea that my smart glasses could remind me of someone’s name when I see them is close to the top feature I can imagine for them; I’m terrible at remembering names on the fly. On the other, the very fucking last company...
The SpaceX IPO is all over the news right now, and one of the bits I find fascinating (and scary) is the idea that extraordinary changes have been made to some of the stock indexes that will affect not just investors in individual...
Less than a month ago, I wrote a post about “Novel Computing Devices”, particularly the c100 by Caligra. Well, it’s now shipping. I’m not sure why—it’s easy to assume it’s due to RAMmageddon—but it ships with 64 GB RAM instead of the 96...
This episode of The Daily from The New York Times is an incredible piece of reporting on a terrible outbreak of a rare strain of Ebola in Central Africa. As far from perfect as the NYT has been at home, on our local politics, this is the...
RIP Charlie CunninghamMountain bike pioneer Charlie Cunningham has passed away at the age of 78. A bike accident in 2015 resulted in a serious head injury, and in recent years he’d been living in a care facility in California. Charlie...
I just went to The Hollywood Reporter website to read an article about Scott Pelley’s response to his firing from 60 Minutes, but had to click through so much crap to get to to it, and then suffer a barrage of intrusive ads in, over, and...
I was about to post about this, but Kottke did such a great job of it, I’ll just point you to his.We spent six years contemplating a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about what happens to ordinary beings...
Joanna Stern, now on her own at New Things, has a great new video that looks into the trend of people modifying their Meta Ray-Ban glasses so that they can record without the light that normally alerts people to the fact that they’re...
Wow, Jeff Geerling has an honest comparison between the Framework 12 and the MacBook Neo, and it’s not even close. (Really, he gives the Framework more than a fair shake.) The Neo is an incredible value.
“I believe in the X-Men” 🥺
Pranav Jain, from an article titled “The quiet grief of adult friendship”, at The Times of India:However, somewhere between “Let’s catch up soon” and “Sorry, life has been hectic”, adult friendship became one of the most emotionally...
Drew Goins, Jeopardy! champion, writing about his experience on that show, at The Atlantic:To win on Jeopardy, you don’t need to learn everything. You just need to learn one thing about everything.It’s a fun article.
Nate Silver, writing at Silver Bulletin, tells the interesting, ultimately sad, story of FiveThirtyEight, mostly known for its statistics-based election coverage. I enjoyed following it back in its heyday, and it’s too bad it went the...
The cancer spreads.