meanderingexile

//I never want to end up piloting a nuclear reactor.// At some point in the past, I’d picked up the bit of trivia that the Chernobyl nuclear reactor had to be much more actively controlled than I realized leading up to the accident, with the human operato…

//Shipping and swashbucklers//The Good Old Days//Opportunity in complexity// I recently read The World For Sale, an investigation into commodities trading in the 20th century.

//Military enterprisers//the feudal and the federal//Putting pikemen on your credit card// If there was a ever a time to be a mercenary, it was Renaissance Italy.

//the beginning of digital flight control//vibe astronautics//the human wants to be in the loop// Mindell’s Digital Apollo is a great book, and not just for the space-obsessed.

I never thought of myself as an anxious person, but for a few years fear and anxiety became a pretty big part of my life.

//two volcanoes, both alike in dignity (but not in violence)//lava-passata theory//the pacific rim//the big rip at Þingvellir//making sense of the world// In the last year, I’ve passed close to a couple of volcanoes, one of which is known for exploding vi…