Monthly Archives: September 2013

N.S.A. inserting backdoors into hardware and encryption standards. nyti.ms/15GYX7p

Some local Breaking Bad action at the Hobee’s in Sunnyvale mercurynews.com/crime-courts/c… via @mercnews

E was laughing when he showed me the mohawk on the new LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 in the latest LEGO magazine. aboutus.lego.com/en-us/news-roo…

U.S. air interdiction will only add to the Charlie Foxtrot in Syria. nyti.ms/15FgJYW

Now adding 1/2 a teaspoon of miso to my smoothies as a probiotic alternative/supplement to yogurt.

RIP Frederik Pohl, Palatine, IL resident. Love reading Man Plus and Gateway when I was a kid. nyti.ms/17JTW4J

When asking why a younger sister in kindergarten likes One Direction, A says, “Other families listen to a station besides NPR on the radio”.

Factoid from “The Sports Gene”: Iditarod dogs have eight times the VO2 Max of humans. Too bad their “Unbreakable” weakness is too much heat.

Malcolm Gladwell on “The Sports Gene”. Recommends Tyler Hamilton’s “The Secret Race”. newyorker.com/arts/critics/a…

I always thought Nyad’s attempts of swimming to Cuba to Florida were sisyphean dreams. Unbelievable. Nyad FTW! nyti.ms/17FwKVm