I’ve been busy with the conference, compounded by the fact that I brought the wrong mouse with me for the laptop, so light posting. But it’s worth noting the anniversary of the loss of Challenger. Which is also (as always) my birthday.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
In The Air
Heading to Orlando, via West Palm Beach. Both flights (went through Charlotte) have been delayed for lack of flight attendents…
The Largest Wealth Flight In History
Congratulations, California.
Blue Origin
…has an impressive turnaround on the first booster it recovered.
Scott Adams
RIP
A Final Message From Scott Adams pic.twitter.com/QKX6b0MFZA
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) January 13, 2026
[January 21st update]
Thoughts from Greg Gutfeld.
[Bumped]
Stop Counting Calories
None of this is news to me, but with the recent change in the previously disastrous food pyramid, maybe people will pay more attention now.
A Mass Hostage Situation In Iran?
And by “mass,” I mean by the millions.
If the administration still intends to do something, I wonder what they have planned?
[Update a couple minutes later[
What can’t the Democrats speak frankly about Iran?
Starfleet Academy
We’ve been sort-of enjoying “Strange New Worlds, the prequel to TOS, but this looks awful. They don’t have GLP-1s in the 21st century?
[Update a while later]
Stephen Green almost watched a whole episode, so you wouldn’t have to.
[Late-morning update]
I watched 24 minutes of "Starfleet Academy" before I turned it off.
— Byl Holte (@SirBylHolte) January 15, 2026
I stopped it when the fat Klingon Jem'Hadar lady started verbally abusing the black male kid and the Klingon male kid.
Before that, there was a lot of talk about how people are hungry and have to steal food -…
[Early-afternoon update]
Wait a minute… pic.twitter.com/57NtaFPIUu
— Jon Del Arroz | Pop Culture & Gaming 🎮 (@jondelarroz) January 16, 2026
The Crew On Artemis II
Bob Zimmerman says to take them off the flight.
NASA would never allow SpaceX to do something like this.
But it’s a tremendous waste of money either way.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Eric Berger reports on a meeting at NASA to discuss the issue. Jared owns it now.
[Bumped]
[Midnight update]
Charlie Camarda responds.
2026 In Space
Stephen Clark has a round up of both domestic and international planned activities, with probability estimates.