The Astropy Problem

This came across my “professional” social feeds today (meaning the Facebook groups frequented by people who are astronomers and/or scientists). The paper itself is something that one might expect to actually show up as an opinion piece in Nature or Science, though I doubt it will. It’s a little too biographical for those places. The… Continue reading The Astropy Problem

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Commuter Bookclub – Grave Peril (Jim Butcher)

I spend a lot of time in the car. For people like me there are a couple of things that keep us sane. Good books are one of them. This week, let’s talk about The Dresden Files: Gravel Peril by Jim Butcher. A wizard in Chicago, you say? Tell me more…

The Great Cousin’s Chart

Putting this here, because it comes up about once a trip back to the East Coast (where I’ve got tons of cousins and my son has tons of of first cousin’s once removed).    

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The Economics of Space

Is there an economic incentive for us to colonize Mars? This came across my social feeds by way of The Mars Society, so you can guess that, in general, the answer is going to “Yes.” Let’s dig in.

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playing with markdown

I’ve been getting myself into “real developer” kind of stuff lately; somewhat inspired by a welder turned developer friend and partly by the number of awesome “open development projects that are going on right now.

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