Victor Kiam was right

All the amazing new knowledge that is emerging from Mars is fascinating, but I think that they are asking the wrong questions. What we are discovering is that Mars not only had water, but now it appears that it had salt  [more...]

I climbed aboard the light rail today and headed downtown to nose about. The light rail here is certainly nothing like Metro (or BART), but it does the job. One feature that it does have above the others is a convenient  [more...]

Sad news today (listen, the horrific tragedy in Pakistan is large enough that I can’t quite wrap my mind around it yet and I’m not going to be able to add anything to the narrative of that earthquake, so  [more...]