Tech Tuesday for 10/16 Swimming Bullets and Mortal Coil
Oscar Gordon’s Tech Tuesday, Ordinary Times’ weekly look at science, technology, and all thing innovative, plus remembering Paul Allen.
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Tech Tuesday – 10/9 – Legoland, Interrupted by SpaceX Edition
Our friend Oscar is vacationing, but checked in to deliver his Tech Tuesday links, as well as pics from having witnessed the Space X launch.
Tech Tuesday- 10/2 – Nuclear Pasta, and Other Changes
Oscar Gordon’s Tech Tuesday covering Ammonia as fuel, making the Star Trek Tricoder, turning CO2 solid with a battery, Japanese innovation in space and baby elevators, cheap metal decontaminating water, simulated avalanches, and more
Tech Tuesday – 9/17 – Asymptomatic Sick Kids Are A Nightmare Edition
Last week Bug developed hives all over his body. Misses school for the rest of the week. Freaked us out, because to date, he has no known allergies. Urgent care put him on Benadryl, which did nothing. Two days later, PCP puts him on Prednisone, which ended the hives, and spun him up so much we spent a day letting him run around the Arizona Science Center (nice place, BTW). Yesterday I get a call that the throat swab the PCP took came back positive for Strep (the quick test was negative), turns out the kid has Scarlet Fever, sans the fever, or the sore throat, or the vomiting…
Tech Tuesday 8/28/14 – Oscar Is Tired of Arizona Heat Edition
I am so ready for that mythical pleasant Arizona winter.
Tech Tuesday 8/14/18
I’ve got a recycling post I’m working on, but finding time to do it justice is an issue. Until then, here are some recent links.
Tech Tuesday 07/31/18 – Back In The Saddle Edition
Move is done, we are settled, so I am back at it!
Tech Tuesday 6/12/18 – Packing up the office Edition
Packing up my office this week to put on the truck, but I still wanted to share. I promise, once this move is complete, I will make these more substantive.
Tech Tuesday 05/22/18 – Ryan Reynolds is My God Edition
Being lazy again, because finding a tenant for my house, and getting all the little things done I need to do before I can rent the house, and getting ready to spend a week on travel next week, and doing all the things that need doing before we move to another state, etc…. It gets exhausting. But I did get to see the brilliant work of art that is Deadpool 2.
Tech Tuesday 4/24/18 – Post-Phoenix Edition
Back from Arizona. We got a lease signed for a house out in NE Scottsdale (right on the edge of civilization – trail-heads into the mountains are just 4 blocks away). Now I just need to get my house ready to rent and find a tenant.
Tech Tuesday 3/27/18 – Materials Edition
Materials make up our world, and what we can do with any given thing continues to be one of the fronts along which science and engineering continue to make great strides. Although one could argue that advances occur so quickly that by the time a new material is ready for mass production, it’s practically obsolete.
Tech Tuesday 3/13/18 – Freestyle Edition
I just had a whole weekend of sun and warm weather, I’m feeling footloose and fancy free. Therefore, no categories or organization for you!
Tech Tuesday 2/27/18 – Social Impacts Edition
I’m trying a new format today. Instead of sorting links by field, I’m going to focus more on a theme. This week: the intersection of science, tech, and society. Links are offered in no particular order.
Netflix Delivers – Altered Carbon Review
A brief review of Altered Carbon, Netflix’s new Sci-Fi series.
Alrighty GOP, It’s Go Time, Let’s See What You Got!
They’ve got the power, let’s see what they do with it in the clinch.
PS: Is my image too subtle?
