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The go-to source for comparing national levels of defense spending arount the world is SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which has just published its data on defense spending in 2025. Here are a few snapshots...
My brother's smart home project and my blog lab have more in common than I thought. A case for having a project that never really ends.
A surprisingly effective solution to an unsurprisingly uncommon problem.
Robert Moses built a world that eventually didn't want him. AI's morning looks bright. Whether the evening is splendid is still up to us.
I have moved this site off Ghost and onto my custom blogging engine. Why? I had lost interest in the space. In the form it existed. Everything should look and work the same. If you notice anything broken, please let me know. I have also...
From In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2014), Kindle pp. 21-22: To be sure, nationalism also drove the obsession. Americans, slowly emerging from the...
I have art block right now and I just need to post about it.
I’m Not Being Funny at the Bush Theatre is a play which at one point has you laughing at Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On and then later crying during the same song. It is a bittersweet story of a young couple with a 3-year-old child,...
It’s 1996. Steve Jobs was still at NeXT with the merger with Apple still a few months away. I was a Systems Engineer for NeXT, working alongside a Sales Executive, and our little team covered customers in a part of the East Region. We...
Nationwide protests erupted in Iran on December 28, 2025, evolving into the largest uprising since the 1979 Revolution, driven by deep anger against the dictatorship. Demonstrations spread to over 200 cities across all 31 provinces, with...