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Flying the Planet Atlas RocketCam at BALLS 2026
Of the 6 rocket launches we had at BALLS 2026, our strap-on video camera only survived on the smallest one: our 38mm minimum diameter "Planet Atlas" flying on an Aerotech I175 motor. It was Sunday morning, and we needed to stay below the clouds for visibility. Here’s the video from the strap-on RocketCam and the… Read More
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Vlog of our Big Red Rocket at BALLS
🚀 Kevin spent the weekend with us at BALLS and captured the excitement of one of our launches (a supersonic fiberglass + aluminum rocket) and the camaraderie of our crew… Here’s his video and the rocket’s red glare… bursting in air ♫ ♪
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⚡METALLICA⚡ at the Vegas Sphere
45 years of camaraderie on display. Lars was delighted at how the show went last night, saying weekend 2 of their show was even better. Here’s a video clip I took.
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The 130-Year Moore’s Law Update
NOTE: this is a semi-log graph, so a straight line is an exponential; each y-axis tick is 100x. This graph covers a 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x improvement in computation/$. Pause to let that sink in. Humanity’s capacity to compute has compounded for as long as we can measure it, exogenous to the economy, and starting long before Intel… Read More
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Talking AI with Sergey Brin
At a conference in Vegas today
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Checking in with the Cal*Neva construction
A historic revival on Lake Tahoe. Marilyn Monroe spent her last weekend there with her friend Frank Sinatra, original developer of the property. It was the first casino in America (1931) and the Prohibition-era secret tunnels are still in place, last used to move liquor discreetly across state lines and evade police raids. We are… Read More
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Shennon Bio’s T-Cell Therapy Accelerator AI
"The firm’s technology is called the TCELERATOR platform. Shennon said the platform works by profiling over 10 million single-cell interactions simultaneously and identifies functional leads in a single experiment. This integrated technology engine spans target discovery, ultra-high-throughput microfluidics-driven functional screening, computational binder prediction and optimization, and AI-enabled safety assessment." “’We’ve now disclosed three T cell… Read More
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The Apple Logo from Headquarters (1993 – 1998)
Another HQ Conservation — the original hand-painted curvy Apple rainbow logo display from the reception wall at 1 Infinite Loop Campus Store, before they went monochrome. I worked there in 1994.
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⌚ Watch Out
Some more unusual and unique analog watches, from microfluidics to my first Apple watch: 1)Top left: my first Omega, and aesthetically the most elegant to my eye, with a central co-axial titanium tourbillon. It’s the De Ville Tourbillon Master Chronometer, Serial Number 2 2)Top center: The Ressence Type 1 Slim HOD3 in titanium, one of… Read More
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Twitter’s Blue Bird of Happiness
The 63" tall illuminated logo from their NY Headquarters just arrived. I am saving it for posterity. It was the public face of the company before the 2023 rebrand as X.
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