The Internet has given millions of us the vocabulary of logic without necessarily giving us its discipline. Straw men, ad hominem attacks, appeals to authority and “correlation isn’t causation” have become weapons for winning arguments rather than tools for examining them. A look at what happens when logic becomes part of the performance.
A welcoming route into fifty volumes without turning reading into penance.
A toasted English muffin, Canadian bacon, egg and cheese become a remarkably good breakfast sandwich with a silicone egg round and about a minute in the microwave.
A childhood remembered through the places that cost little but meant everything: Hart Park, a robot slide in Saugus, the Moreton Bay fig tree, Lake Isabella, Morro Bay, Sequoia, Vasquez Rocks, fried burritos, Klieg lights, and family drives up the winding road to Castaways. Decades later, a return to California with my wife brought one of those childhood journeys full circle.
When a commercial painting job took my father onto a Los Angeles studio lot near the filming of Batman, he got a very different view of Gotham City—one seen from outside the camera frame.
Crisp, golden crab rangoon with a filling that actually tastes like crab. A one-to-one ratio of real claw crab and cream cheese, simple seasoning, and careful oil-temperature control make the difference between crisp restaurant-style rangoons and chewy ones.
A memory of a June 1962 wedding album, an aunt’s recollection of how people dressed for special occasions, and the small details of family life that become more valuable as the years pass.
A Christmas journey into rural Brazil left two missionary boys with an unforgettable lesson in generosity when a family with little to spare welcomed them to a table filled with the one thing they had—bananas.
In response to a new European Union law, AI platforms are implementing new schemes for watermarking the content they generate. Anthropic recently disclosed its future Claude models will use SynthID-Text , an approach Google created and released as open source. It uses a secret key that subtly changes the process a model uses for choosing the next word in a sentence.
One acronym from an experienced SQL developer can save hours of debugging and produce more reliable aggregate queries.
A note on roads, memory, and the landscapes between destinations.
