I got two similar ads on June 4, 2023, in one single article, from The Guardian.

I was a dedicated rock climber and a sometime ice climber all through the 1980s. I tried to go climbing every weekend, and every holiday.

Here’s why I quit climbing.

Now even more inscrutable, with intermediate fire!

I found a piece of an old wallet while I was cleaning up my home office. It had some baby pictures of my son, who is now 22. It also had some fortune cookie fortunes.

I keep noticing articles or posts with titles like “N lessons from Napoleon on X”, where N is usually 10, and X has values of “productivity”, “life”, “career”, “management”, vague things like that.

I was so inspired by seeing these valuable lessons, that I wrote Career and life lessons from meatloaf as an homage.

Here’s 10 “Lessons from Napoleon” posts to prove that taking lessons from meatloaf isn’t all that odd.

I recently read this book because I vaguely recalled reading it as a youngster. For the first third of the book, my recollection seemed correct, but then the book diverged from what I remembered. Maybe I didn’t read it back in the late 60s after all.

Ate at the Imperial for the first time since well before The Pandemic. It’s still very good, and the scallion pancakes are the very best.

Space flight historian Michael J. Neufeld wrote an article about Wernher von Braun’s advocacy of space stations, Wernher von Braun’s Ultimate Weapon, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2007.

An expanded version of that article appeared as ‘‘Space superiority’’: Wernher von Braun’s campaign for a nuclear-armed space station, 1946–1956 in a journal, Space Policy, 22 (2006) 52-62