Musk's Tesla

The video reminds me of watching the ISS pass overhead from my back yard, but this is considerably more impressive. Details at Big Think [http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bigthink/main/~3/nwF0QrVjJPk/astrophotographer-captures-elon-musks-tesla-roadster-tumbling-through-space] . Big Think also has a story about Starlink [http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/elon-musk-quietly-plans-to-put-11925-satellites-into-orbit?utm_source=feedburner&…

Gotta preserve that design

> Employees in Apple’s new spaceship-like headquarters keep walking into the glass windows and doors because they’re too busy staring at their phones https://t.co/F1CxF6Tom4 — Select All (@selectall) February 16, 2018 [https://twitter.com/selectall/status/964556767496687616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…

"Pursuing summer on snow-shoes"

> Written December 6, 1856, in his "Journal," vol. IX, p. 164 pic.twitter.com/AkyuIYI9ME [https://t.co/AkyuIYI9ME] — Walden Woods Project (@TheWaldenWoods) February 11, 2018 [https://twitter.com/TheWaldenWoods/status/962785068820451330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Forecast high in Northern Virginia today is 61.…

Speaking of reading...

> Just stopped cold by terrific explanation in our 5th grader’s English textbook on the relationship between reading and freedom: pic.twitter.com/4KrRBApdEA [https://t.co/4KrRBApdEA] — Scott Simon (@nprscottsimon) February 5, 2018 [https://twitter.com/nprscottsimon/status/960628792933920769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…

Three-quarters done?

> .@lizrenzetti [https://twitter.com/lizrenzetti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] says she’d abandon a book 3/4 of the way through, even 95% of the way through, quite happily https://t.co/QPI9T6NvAw — CBCSundayEdition (@CBCSunday) February 5, 2018 [https://twitter.com/CBCSunday/status/960632878307528704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…

S---hole

> A screenshot from a book I wrote almost 30 years ago — and whose subtitle, no joke, was “Making America Great Again.” Main title: More Like Us. h/t @laszlo_toth_jr [https://twitter.com/laszlo_toth_jr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] (Pls read at least this page!) pic.twitter.…

For the solstice

> Written January 30, 1854, in his "Journal," vol. 7, p. 256 pic.twitter.com/ucmcDgdTVI [https://t.co/ucmcDgdTVI] — Walden Woods Project (@TheWaldenWoods) December 21, 2017 [https://twitter.com/TheWaldenWoods/status/943889060661211136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…