Another day, another batch of photos from August. 353/366: Trail Blaze This is actually a slight reversal of chronology, as the hike through Vischer’s Ferry was the day after I went for a hike in the H. G. Reist Wildlife Sanctuary. The pictures from Vischer’s Ferry were better though, as despite the name I didn’t… Continue reading 353-361/366: Penultimate Photo Dump
344-352/366: Wetland Walk
Another in the sadly delayed wrapping-up of my photo-a-day project. These are all pictures from a hike in the Vischer Ferry Nature Preserve over in Clifton Park. We took the kids over there one time, but a thunderstorm started coming in before we got very far. While the kids were at my parents’, I decided… Continue reading 344-352/366: Wetland Walk
336-343/366: Panoramas and Sillyheads
I’ve got a big backlog of photo-a-day pictures, but finding time to edit and post them is a major challenge. I’ve got nearly all the editing done, now, so I’ll start putting blocks of stuff up when I have time (generally very early in the morning, as I’m awake before everyone else in Chateau Steelypips).… Continue reading 336-343/366: Panoramas and Sillyheads
Physics Blogging Round-Up: Fast Cars and Spherical Cows
It’s been a while since the last Forbes links dump, but since it’s the last day of the month, I figure I might as well sum up a bit. Only two posts, but they have a connection that I’ll expound on a bit to make up for the lack of material… — Can A Tesla… Continue reading Physics Blogging Round-Up: Fast Cars and Spherical Cows
314-335/366: Massive Backlog
It’s been over a month since I did a photo-a-day post, largely because I haven’t been taking many pictures for a variety of reasons. I do still mean to get a year’s worth of good photos done, but the “daily” part has completely disintegrated at this point. As a way of getting somewhat back on… Continue reading 314-335/366: Massive Backlog
Physics Blogging Round-Up: Camera Tricks, College Advice, Hot Fans, and Lots of Quantum
Several weeks of silence here, for a bunch of reasons that mostly boil down to “being crazy busy.” I’ve got a bunch of physics posts over at Forbes during that interval, though: — The Camera Trick That Justifies The Giant Death Star: I busted out camera lenses and the kids’ toys to show how you… Continue reading Physics Blogging Round-Up: Camera Tricks, College Advice, Hot Fans, and Lots of Quantum
Physics Blogging Round-Up: Roman Engineering, Water, and Baseball
It’s been a month since the last links dump of posts from Forbes, though, really, I took a couple of weeks off there, so it’s been less than that in terms of active blogging time. But I’ve put up a bunch of stuff in July, so here are some links: — The Physics Of Ancient… Continue reading Physics Blogging Round-Up: Roman Engineering, Water, and Baseball
306-313/366: Strong Island
A delayed photo dump this week, because I was solo-parenting last week while Kate was traveling for work, and then I took the sillyheads down to Long Island to visit my grandmother while Kate was at Readercon. Recovering from all that took a lot of time, plus there was a bunch of computer wrangling in… Continue reading 306-313/366: Strong Island
Political Query: Who Should I Give Money To?
A question for the more politically plugged-in folks out there: If I want to donate money this election cycle, who should I be looking at giving it to? OK, that probably needs some unpacking, but given Internet attention spans, I wanted to get the basic question right up front before a passing Pokemon draws people… Continue reading Political Query: Who Should I Give Money To?
Why Physicists Disparage Philosophers, In Three Paragraphs
Periodically, some scientific celebrity from the physical sciences– Neil deGrasse Tyson or Stephen Hawking, say– will say something dismissive about philosophy, and kick off a big rush of articles about how dumb their remarks are, how important philosophy is, and so on. Given that this happens on a regular basis, you might wonder why it… Continue reading Why Physicists Disparage Philosophers, In Three Paragraphs