Ambivalent Engineer

Car and Driver’s 40,000 mile 12-month long-term review ofthe Pacifica Hybrid is not rosy.   We’ve put 44,000 miles on ours in 2.6 years. ...

The conventional wisdom is that, if North Korea detonates a nuclear missile near any US or allied territory, be it Guam or Seattle or Tokyo ...

The Los Angeles Times has the best tool that I've yet seen for understanding the amount of water used in agriculture.  It lets you put t...

I just found Wayne Hale's blog .  Be careful reading this thing, I just lost nearly an entire night of sleep.  The latest update, which ...

On Friday I took a quick trip to the Sierras to grab some Ponderosa pine forest images with a drone.  Initially, the logging road was just ...

Down until I'm done talking to Google about this post.

It's 5:13pm, and I'm sitting in the shade in my back yard, tweaking some really neat flexure mounts, while keeping an eye on two ...

For the last two years I've been doing a lot of SolidWorks Simulation on my Lenovo W520 laptop.  This thing has been great.  But I'v...

The SkyBox satellites are the first to use area array rather than pushbroom sensors for survey work, but they certainly aren't the first...

Christmas (and Christmas shopping) is upon us, and I have a big review coming up, but I just can't help myself... SkySat-1, from a l...

This is a huge post, about a subject that may not be terribly interesting. I suspect most of you will want to skim all but the first sectio...