Friday, December 5, 2025

You're going to hear a lot of bad Christmas music this month.

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 Make some time for the good stuff .    
Thursday, December 4, 2025

The fallacy of equivocation

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This is Joseph. Ladies and Gentlemen, the real progressive : “For over two decades, I have implored our political elite to take seriously th...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

When it came to Elon Musk, the hyperloop was my reindeer moment.

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[I wrote most of this ages ago, but it took me so long to get the final draft done that it's now a seasonal post.]  My parents would tel...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Everybody's talking about affordability, but only Marketplace thought to bring in a linguist.

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I am generally opposed to making nouns of verbs or vice versa so I should definitely have trouble with this one but Rett, makes a persuasive...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Our annual Toys-for-Tots post

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A good Christmas can do a lot to take the edge off of a bad year both for children and their parents (and a lot of families are havi...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Explaining the finances of OpenAI remains a job for Patrick Boyle

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Does OpenAI expect a Government Bailout As always, the excerpts don't Boyle justice -- you need to watch the whole thing -- but here...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

"As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line [Repost]

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    If you watch this and you could swear you remember Johnny and Mr. Carlson discussing Pink Floyd, you're not imagining things. Hu...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Happy Thanksgiving Eve

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Any excuse to post McCay.    Little Nemo in Slumberland 1905-11-26 (from the good people at Wikimedia ).    
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Apologies in advance but I just have to share this one

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A less consequential but far funnier follow-up to yesterday's post.    We all knew that Elon Musk was a sad, hollow man whose craving fo...
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Monday, November 24, 2025

Elon really, really doesn't think things through

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Over on X, they just rolled out the public feature that reveals where accounts are located. I've found several major Elon Musk fan acc...
Friday, November 21, 2025

The funniest part of the latest XKCD cartoon isn't on XKCD

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Don't get me wrong, it's a funny gag ...  ... but not as funny as this detail about the strip revealed in the Explain XKCD blog.   ...
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Thursday, November 20, 2025

Cacti, Goats, Charcoal -- we do it all

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There are lots of questions about scalability and the best way to take advantage of this, but at the very least, if you live in the Southwes...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

After you've cleaned your room, you can go outside and play with Foamy.

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Christina Cauterucci writing for Slate: But opposition to pet vaccines seems to have risen since the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts say that s...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Edison on the power grid of the future

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Edison (who never learned to drive) loved riding in fast cars but hated the fuel that powered them.  From a 1910 interview . … said Edison a...
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Monday, November 17, 2025

Actually a P/E ratio of 200 would be an enormous improvement

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   As we've said before, anyone with even a passing interest in business, finance, or the economy should sign up for Allison Morrow'...