August 24, 2026
Monday
Fire Sales, Cheap Fuel, Fresh Brains
A 19th-century capital goes up in flames, a modern government's cheap fuel turns costly overnight, and a spare language or two might just buy your brain a few extra years.
August 23, 2026
Sunday
Coffee-Fueled Voyage to Nowhere
A late cup of coffee and a search for refuge.
The Past Week
Saturday, August 22, 2026
No Second, Your Majesty
A single schooner outsails an entire royal fleet so decisively that asking who came second turns out to be the wrong question — and a famous trophy borrows her name ever after.
Friday, August 21, 2026
From Big Swings to Little Ones
A big swing from the past, to a cautious but still big swing today, and a caution about fewer and smaller swings in the future.
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Mind the Gap, or Fake Zombies May Become Real Zombies
Let your curiosity linger instead of always accepting the easy answer.
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
First Flight, First Photo
History's most famous liftoff was captured by someone who'd never seen a camera before.
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Rationing Volts, Ratifying Votes
A near-fifty-year-old traveler squeezes a few more years out of a dwindling power supply, echoing a century-old campaign that finally crossed the finish line by the narrowest of margins.
Featured
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Winnie Mae at Programmable Speed
Mild weather relief, a programmable photonic chip that could reshape data centers, and skepticism over where Trump's tariff revenue is really headed.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Conclave Wedding Ring
A Conclave is coming, and I found my wedding ring after years of what I thought had been diligent searching.
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Last Minute Kirkja
We had no plans today, until we decided late in the morning to head to the zoo to see the baby elephant, Kirkja.
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Spitfire III, the Second
I bought a 1968 Triumph Spitfire tonight...online. She's currently in Wisconsin...and now I need to coordinate getting her to Ohio. A new adventure is underway!
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Running from the sunrise and chasing the sunset
Jonathan and I drove home, from Cambridge to Perrysburg, while Renee and Jake flew from Boston to Detroit.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Graduation Day is Finally Here
Jonathan's Harvard graduation day. Amazing.
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Old San Juan is the one
Renee and I spent the day in San Juan, Puerto Rico today, mostly in Old San Juan. We saw a lot, and learned a lot in this beautiful part of San Juan.
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Garage Band
Our garage was suddenly front and center today, as Jonathan set up and tested his new guitar amp and Tesla service came to swap out the main computer on my car.