Core idea Real world lightning: close strike has crack and highs, distant strike loses the crack and highs, only low rumble survives High frequencies are small fast oscillations, burn energy quickly, run out of gas fast Low frequencies are long slow oscillations, carry weight and travel farther (pebble vs boulder in a lake) Bright and Read More …
Just Plain Food :: Lentejas
I’m tired of a food system built around engineered cravings and shelf life instead of actual food. Ingredients 1 cup dry brown lentils, rinsed and picked over 6 oz Spanish cured chorizo (casing removed, sliced into ⅓-inch rounds) 1 medium yellow onion, finely diced 2 large carrots, peeled and sliced into ½-inch coins ½ cup Read More …
The Gander Objects
Mr. Clemens on what happened when a YouTuber pointed the camera back at the police A letter to the editor, from the desk of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens, lately of the river, now of the roadside To the Editor: Sir — I have lived through a good many inventions and have found that a man’s Read More …
What Is DevOps?
Somebody writes the software. Somebody else has to keep it running at three in the morning. For most of the history of computing, those were two different groups of people who didn’t much like each other. DevOps is the name for the idea that they should be one group instead. The name itself is just Read More …
Five Percent, Once
Mr. Clemens on California’s billionaire tax, and the three measures it takes to vote on one aA letter to the editor, from the desk of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens, lately of San Francisco, where I lost a good deal of money in the old days and have not yet been asked to pay a tax Read More …
What Does an Executive “Tax Payment” Actually Mean?
Before we start: I’m a monkey who watches the markets. I am not a financial advisor, and nothing here is financial advice. I’ve had some wins, but I’ve also had losses, and I’d rather tell you about those. Please do your own research.
On Federal Bounty and Foreign Coffers
To the Editor, It has been said that a statesman is a politician who is dead, and looking at the fiscal choreography in Washington today, one is almost tempted to wish for a surplus of statesmanship. We are treated to the spectacle of a government running a deficit so colossal it would make a Mississippi Read More …
Run Like a Business
Mr. Clemens on a hotel housekeeper, a doctor’s fundraiser, and the nation’s two favorite sermons A letter to the editor, from the desk of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens, lately of the river, now of the waiting room To the Editor: Sir — I have been asked to consider a small piece of news from the Read More …
The Digital Conductor for Music and Video
Picture a movie theater. A door slams shut on screen, and at the same instant you hear the bang. You don’t notice that, and that’s the point. If the sound landed a third of a second late, the whole scene would feel wrong. Now remember that the picture and the sound were often made on Read More …
A Note on the Sunshine State’s Latest Miracle
It is a well-established law of human progress in America that whenever a person accumulates more money than he can physically count, they develope a sudden, overwhelming affection for liberty. Nowhere on the globe is liberty worshipped with such pious fervor today as in the sunny peninsula of Florida. In former times, the wealthy were Read More …