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I still ask “AI” questions about me from time to time, just to see what it knows about a moderately notable science fiction author and whether it will still make up things when it doesn’t know something, and as of May 8, 2026, the answer...
It’s been a ride…
It’s been a ride…
Few hours before sunset we hoisted the anchor and left the beautiful, but crowded anchorage. The distance to Nuku Hiva is enough that you can’t do it during the daylight hours, so we opted for a night sail. The sound between Hiva Oa and...
Back in 2000, the rule of thumb at Microsoft was that each employee needed to average roughly $600K in top-line revenue. Inflation adjusted, that is about $1.1M to $1.2M today. Microsoft was a high-margin software monopoly at peak, so it...
Zachary Gillan Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation builds to a question: “What does the border look like?” In a series full of striking scenery and uncanny doppelgangers, it’s a reminder that some of its most unsettling concepts dwell off the...
Where the famous 43 quintillion comes from, why a C64 can’t print it the easy way, and a tiny multi-precision multiplier in BASIC that gets every digit right.
A year ago in the spring of ’25, while I, Kale, was still an apprentice, I ventured to Vermont to build a settee with George Sawyer at his workshop in Woodbury. This is the love child birthed from my time there. This settee takes...