by David | Feb 6, 2015 | design, eating, technology
It’s been some time since we’ve had a kitchen technology update, not since the the two-port usb kitchen, in fact. So pull up a chair and I’ll tell you more than you wanted to know about how I installed a dedicated kitchen tablet. Every now and again,...
by David | Jan 9, 2015 | eating, science!
I’m told that there are treatments available for those of us who are compelled like to count and sort our candy by color before eating it. I can stop any time I want, of course, but today’s fun-sized pack of M&Ms gave me pause. No yellow. There’s...
by David | Sep 16, 2013 | science!, travel
We all know that parallel lines never meet, and it’s convenient to think of the lines of longitude and timezones as parallel, but they really aren’t. The former because they’re inscribed on the (more or less) spherical Earth, and the latter because...
by David | Oct 21, 2012 | reading & writing, science!, technology
I’ve been a huge fan of E ink for ten years now. I visited the company’s Cambridge office back when I was in business school and was very impressed with the technology. So when the original Kindle hit the market a couple of years ago, I was very...
by David | Jun 12, 2012 | science!, travel
I’m back from a trip almost halfway around the world in terms of longitude, but a pretty short hop in latitude. A weather diversion on the way over brought me to Oklahoma City airport, what would have been my second time ever setting foot on Oklahoma soil, but...