Month: September 2023

Time Is Running Out – Energy Strategy Part 1

Our culture today is like a donkey starving to death when he is sitting right between two piles of hay, but can’t decide between the two alternatives. I am referring here to the tension between the two camps regarding energy policy: one says that we must immediately drop all use of fossil fuels at the […]

Open the Processors!

My bachelor’s degree was focused on computer architecture and logical design, and even though I don’t work in that field now, I still have a love for it. When I had a chance, I would sometimes implement “soft” processors within programmable logic and get them to operate in the context of a whole lot of […]

Great at Diving AND Surfacing

I have been privileged to work in the field of autonomous robotics for about as long as there has been autonomous robotics. One group that I am especially glad to have worked with is Nauticus Robotics in Houston. They have really mastered the ability to send an aquatic robot, equipped with 3D vision and manipulator […]

No Easy Path

I was looking a little bit into web design. My experience with prior web sites was usually just a little bit of HTML and maybe some CGI. Either that or using a Content Management System like postnuke. Creating a website today is a much more versatile process, but i can see that the depth of […]

Three Pines Review

Just started watching on Amazon Prime. Looks interesting. I like the main character’s thought process. I am hoping that the final plot does not end up as predictable as it is looking after the first show. I am a little tired of the Canadian indigenous school as a horror show meme — that is a […]

Amazing

I am just floored that my poor little Raspberry Pi 4 is capable of running WordPress (and associated database stuff) in the limited memory, processing, and disk space available. So far it seems nice and responsive. Let me know what you think.