Yo Yo Elevated to Performance Art
Yoyo Elevated to Performance Art
As an occasional yoyo-er, I’ve watched a fair amount of yoyo routines, but this championship-winning routine by 8-time wor
David E. Wheeler
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Data Centers in Space are not crazy!
They are possible, but they would look nothing like the ones on earth. On earth, they are massive buildings with huge cooling infrastructure and massive power requirements. Earth Data Centers have row upon row of racks with electronic equipment. In space it is possible for there to be a single
AI Update mid 2026
Several months ago I wrote a piece about “Artificial Intelligence (AI)”. (I will reiterate that AI is neither “artificial” nor “intelligent”.) AI has been around since at least the 1970’s. (I took a course in graduate school entitled AI in 1977). It has burst into wide public consciousness since
Thoughts on the Minnesota ICE activities
Minneapolis was clearly singled out for a surge of ICE enforcement not because of any specific problem with local immigration enforcement, but because the Trump administration wanted to publicize the Minnesota welfare fraud story. In short we are talking about a political stunt. I should say I am not entirely
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Jimmie Dale Gilmore grew up in Texas. His father was a guitarist in a country band. He got his musical start in a group called The Flatlanders. They issued (and reissued) an album that almost no one heard. But Gilmore and his fellow Flatlanders, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock, went