by Tom | Feb 16, 2017 | Hong Kong / China, Tech, View
It won’t be long until we see droneworks in Hong Kong, I should think. These were a little underwhelming, if I’m honest, but I can see how they’d become extraordinary over time.
by Tom | Feb 7, 2017 | View
Two lovely new sports that I’ve come across by accident. Competitive freestyle indoor skydiving (kind of unconstrained overhead gymnastics). Classical vs Pop full orchestral mash ups (Brahms vs Radiohead and Bartók vs Björk in this post). Indoor skydiving...
by Tom | Nov 18, 2016 | Government, Personal, View
I’ve found the county level US election maps fascinating. Here are some more goodies. The purple linear cartogram of the election results looks like a phoenix decaying. Discuss. Source: Election maps
by Tom | Sep 29, 2016 | Personal, Reading, Science, Tech
Must read (long). Who’s coming to Mars? Musk is a bit like the Chinese. You kind of expect him to get it done.
by Tom | Aug 11, 2016 | Reading
Another from the “I didn’t expect that” list. The written news media is reporting reasonably effectively, we just don’t use old media any more. The two most newsworthy things that Donald Trump did in the last two days were these: He gave a...
