I found a bunch of new and new-ish work on the end-Ordovician extinction

I’ve written before about how much I despise baby talk descriptions of operating system abstractions as promoted by Microsoft.

The use of “folder” is particularly pernicious.

Slylock Fox is one of those bogus “kid’s fun” things that appear in the Sunday Funnies. Slylock is kind of dumb, but it’s better than Uncle Art’s Funland, which is basically a store-brand Sunday funnies strip.

Bought a Compressed air Duster - 3 Gear Adjustable 100000RPM Electric air Duster with LED Light, Cordless air Blower for Computer Keyboard Car Cleaning Kit 9000mAh Rechargeable Dust Remover

That’s me and my maternal grandfather, George Duerksen (August 23, 1902 - January 11, 1989).

Last Friday, my roomba, Dobby, got stuck with no real obstacles in sight.

Adriana Porter Felt is a Director of Engineering at Google. She knows what she’s talking about.

Google notified me that 1,000 cellphones have viewed my review of a parking lot!

This summer, we rode the 1880 Train, from Keystone SD to Hill City SD, and back. Easily worth the price of tickets, lots of fun, and you get to see South Dakota’s Black Hills in a way you won’t otherwise.