I find the history of technology fascinating. It’s especially satisfying because more than any other area of history I can see patterns repeated over and over again with relatively little change through time.  One of these trends is the ability of small, incremental innovations to lead to a discrete technological... [Read More]

Tl;dr: For the most part this post is a ranty consumer advocacy warning about my experience with Time Warner Cable, but I attempt to tie it back to regularly scheduled blog topics with a bigger point about accountability at the end.  At the end of June, I received an Internet... [Read More]

Saturday Stories! Incendiary flying animals as weapons are apparently not new  Speaking of things that seem way over the Tinfoil Hat Line - but we'll see. NIAC funded projects: very cool, but still an example of government picking winners and losers I'm surprised the supreme court isn't getting in on... [Read More]

Some assorted NewSpace 2013 inspired thoughts that I want to put up while they are still fresh and go into more detail in future posts:  Public Perception/Personal Connection – as much as I would like to be wrong, I believe that a most people feel little connection to space.  When... [Read More]

A short post today due to:  A)   Having a lot of fun tuning the control gains on the MTF (microgravity test facility – the official acronym even though I’d rather call it the MTA: microgravity test assembly), that now has vaguely working feedback.  There’s something very satisfying about the ability... [Read More]