Month: August 2013

In the comments to Eric’s This should not be happening in the United States. But is this the United States? commenter Scott M said “I wish I knew then what I now know.” Watch this video and you will know it too. About 7 minutes. And worth every second. Oh. Yeah. Pass it on. This…

If this report is any indication, it’s fascinating how much money people make for teaching people how to do things that they don’t seem all that competent to do. A Naperville Central High School driver education teacher facing drunken driving and theft charges is due in court this week, according to authorities. Jeffrey Peterson, 54,…

Michele Catalano is a highly respected blogger and writer I have linked many times over the past decade. So I was just completely taken aback to I read that she was visited and questioned by a team of six armed government agents for doing absolutely nothing but Googling things that any normal writer or blogger…

I’m very interested in time and frequency. One, for technical reasons and two, because when I was a kid it just grabbed me. Quartz crystals are at the heart of most electronic equipment that needs precise time and frequency. It is the “quartz” in a quartz watch. That is changing some with the advent of…