An article on slashdot.org the other day got me thinking about the past. This particular article concerns the SkySails company’s plans to retrofit a ship owned by partner company Beluga with a kite. Well, not just any old kite, but a 320m2 sail-like kite connected to a 15 meter tall mast on the bow. With […]
Not for good of course, just for the year. The last couple of weeks of the year are always something of a dead time here in U.S. government-land. In fact, so many people are out on vacation that the government actually mandates a freeze on all activity related to production servers. We do important work […]
It’s me again. A couple of days ago Gayle mentioned here that we were looking for a tree topper. There appears to be two types commonly available: The Angel, and the Star. So far, none of them of really appeal to us. For me, the angel is really a non-starter. I’ve just never like the […]
Greetings to all you fans of “A Curious Statistical Anomaly”. In addition to the many other bits of fluff that have caught Gayle’s eye, I was lucky enough to attract her attention twenty years ago and convince her that marrying me would be a good idea. I generally lurk behind the scenes, but Gayle has […]