I am a student of scale — a collector of scale-tales. It all began decades ago with the wonderful book The Seven Mysteries of Life, by Guy Murchie, a life’s-work sort of undertaking for him, full of interesting notions interspersed with the author’s cute drawings and beginning with a chapter […]
The Bay Area just wonk bonkers watching the Space Shuttle Endeavor, as it flew over, low, atop a modified 747, on its way to its final resting place in Southern California. We don’t build those things any more. Or fly them into low outer space. I think that’s a shame […]