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Hope you enjoyed the drone video... ... as I said, it was a bit of a surprise to discover those old buildings suddenly appearing in my camera's view!  As you can see from the image of the round building just above and the video below (li...

Last week I was visiting Napa Valley... ... and since it was a beautiful spring day, I went out for a bit of drone flying.  I drove around for a bit, knowing full well that there are lots of rural roads that are dead ends, going part way...

As you know... I have a book coming out in late spring, and I need my crack SRS team-wisdom about the best possible subtitle. My book "The Joy of Finding Out," is 20 stories (mostly inspired by this blog!) about how to do smart, effective, ac...

Whenever I see something that doesn't make sense to me...... or when it's something that just kind of sticks out... something that doesn't match the rest of the background... my first reaction is to say "Huh!"  When I hear myself saying that, I fi...

As you know, I often ask questions...... about the world, about things I notice, about interesting places, people, and events that folks point out to me. I thought I'd try to pull together some of these observational questions into a new seri...

I admit it:  Music completely absorbs me... ... taking up most of my cognitive capacity.  That's why I can't listen to music as I work--my brain can't NOT pay close attention.    When I went to see the Gipsy Kings&nbs...

Welcome to 2019!  A new year, with new Challenges and a few new ideas.  First, a quick update on the book (The Joy of Finding Out):  I'm in the last couple of days of copyediting.  Then it goes back to the publisher so the...

It's been quite a year... I made it back to Bonaire this year, looking for more parrotfish,and more Challenges.  The tropics will return to SRS in themonths ahead! When I look back over the past twelve months of Challenges, answers, comm...

There's a lot of construction going on... ... and so there are a lot of cranes in the local Google landscape, including a bunch of very tall, very large, and very odd ones.    So I was surprised when I saw tall poles on the construc...

More photos! I went over to the construction site and took a new photo today.  It's below.  If you click on the image, you can download the original (with all of the EXIF metadata).  This wasn't ideal lighting conditions for ph...

My father used to work for a crane and shipping company... ... and so I thought I knew a thing or two about cranes.  I grew up around them, and as a young man, I worked for several summers as an "yard hand" (that is, the guy who helped string...

Gratefully, the wildfires are out … … It's been a wild summer of fire in California.  As you recall from the Challenge of November 14, 2018 I posed the SRS Challenge "How many wildfires have there been in California over the past 20...

You'd think that searching to solve a problem would be second nature to me by now.  And yet, I didn't do a search last week that I really should have done.  Last Monday the front passenger window on my car went down, and got st...

Ooops. I wrote the Thanksgiving SRS Challenge before answering the previous one (about  California fire data).  I'll answer that one later this week to catch up.  But today, let's talk about Thanksgiving.  A painting by Je...

I love pumpkin pie. I like it so much that I baked two pumpkin pies yesterday for Thanksgiving.  Well... truthfully, one is for Thanksgiving, and one is for my birthday celebration, which always gets tangled up with the Thanksgiving festiviti...