Like most people, I bumble through each day doing pretty much the same things. For instance, I work in a generic office park and like to go for a walk at lunch to a cafeteria in a nearby building: This being the heavily wooded Northeast, the park is surrounded by forest. One day I happened [...]
Archive for May 2010
Secret Paths
May 23, 2010A Failed High-Tech Gamble
May 12, 2010Ten miles north of Boston is the National Historic Site of the Saugus Iron Works, site of the first heavy industry in the country. It’s a pretty spot, and a great place for a picnic, which my family took advantage of a couple of weeks ago: It’s a reconstruction of the first blast furnace and [...]
Hubble and the Triumph of ROI
May 1, 2010A few days ago, April 24th, was the 20th anniversary of the launching of the Hubble Space Telescope. arsTechnica celebrated with a nice article here, from which I will shamelessly lift this famous picture: This patch of the sky is so tiny that it only contains a few stars from our galaxy, but is packed [...]
