RafaelFajardo

my students and I co-authored the José Jiménez test for characters in LatinX SciFi and Futurism today. It was a participatory mid-term. Hat tips to Mako Mori test and to the Bechdel test. Named for the Bill Dana comedy bit about the first LatinX in space from 1961. Hat tip to Rick Griffith for that…

October 17, 2017

lace weight wool for next beanie(s) (at The Quarter Stitch)

October 16, 2017

forty-nine years ago when I lived in NOLA (at Jackson Square)

October 16, 2017

when I surprise her (at French Quarter – CBD, New Orleans, Louisiana)

October 16, 2017

memento mori (at Lafayette Cemetery No. 1)

October 16, 2017

Royal Sonesta Hotel, because my dad was field engineer on the construction in the late 1960s. Bourbon Street is currently having some work done. (at French Quarter – CBD, New Orleans, Louisiana)

October 16, 2017

additivism: The E in E. coli now stands for electronics Synthetic biology—our attempt to engineer living organisms—has put a lot of effort into making genetic circuitry mimic what we do in silicon. Logical gates, amplifiers, and more have all been implemented using DNA and proteins.

October 16, 2017

new-aesthetic: Aire – World’s First Self-Flying Drone for The Home

October 16, 2017

prostheticknowledge: Paperclips Browser-based Idle Game by Frank Lantz lets you control an AI that runs a paperclip company. There are no instructions but if you are familiar with the game AdVenture Capitalist you will probably work things out (and get drawn into it in the same way, drawn by the growing numbers and frustrated with…

October 16, 2017

The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks

The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks kenyatta: Traditional definitions of the state and its authority hinged on the right to raise taxes, and on its legal monopoly on coercing its people, from punishing and imprisoning them to waging formal war. But as James Scott points out, roughly between 8000…

October 16, 2017