Wrote
- St. Louis-Wuhan connection (2018-10-29)
- Full-stack in a fortnight (20218-10-31)
- Now reading: Man's Search for Meaning (2018-11-01)
- 重复利用火箭系统 - reusable rocket system (2018-11-02)
- Better ballots (2018-11-03)
Read
- Alexa Beattie, Sister Act: An around-the-world tour of St. Louis’ sister cities, St. Louis Magazine (2015-09-17).
- N. Sharon Hill and Kathryn M. Bartol, Five Ways to Improve Communication in Virtual Teams, MIT Sloan Management Review (2018-06-13). (notes) "In short, the more complex the task, the closer you should be to in-person communication."
- Jeff Foust, When spacecraft die, The Space Review (2018-10-29). "Two spacecraft, hundreds of millions of kilometers apart in the inner solar system, are engaged in a morbid race of sorts. The spacecraft, Dawn and Kepler, are about to exhaust their supplies of hydrazine fuel, needed for attitude control; when their hydrazine runs out, their missions end. Which will die first?"
- NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope, JPL News (2018-10-30)
- NASA's Dawn Mission to Asteroid Belt Comes to End, JPL News (2018-11-01)
- Andy Boreham, The Life and Death of Shanghainese, Sixth Tone (2016-09-05). "Despite being born and raised in Shanghai, none of these kids can speak the local dialect of Shanghainese very well, and this doesn’t sit well with their families, who come from one of the last generations able to speak the language fluently."
- Kellen Parker, Expats mapping Chinese ‘vanishing dialects’, Shenzhen Daily (2013-08-20). "How to save these "disappearing dialects" is gradually becoming an important issue in China. In 2010, two Americans decided to take action. Kellen Parker and Steve Hansen launched a website, www.phonemica.net, to record and preserve "disappearing dialects." "
- Jake Swearingen, Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo?, Intelligencer (2018-10-18). "There’s a saying: "You can be rich or be king." You can sell your company for as much as possible, or you can be in charge. Though maybe neither is entirely possible."
- Jeff Foust, Orbital debris removal company Astroscale raises $50 million, Space News (2018-10-31)
- Andrew Jones, China continues recoverable rocket efforts with vertical landing flight test, GBTIMES (2018-11-01)
Listened
- The Long Now Foundation, Julia Galef: Soldiers and Scouts: Why our minds weren't built for truth, and how we can change that, Seminars About Long-term Thinking (02018-09-12)
Watched
美食作家王刚, 厨师长教你：“葱爆牛肉”的家常做法，葱香味浓郁，学做起来 (2018-05-27)
Honestly it doesn't matter which of his videos you watch, they're all fascinating: 美食作家王刚.
Photo
Pumpkin madness continues at home
Upcoming
- 2018-11-07: Startup Connection, The Globe Building
- 2018-11-10: Nicki Bluhm, with Gill Landry, Old Rock House
- 2018-11-13: INCOSE Midwest Gateway Chapter meeting, Bob Scheurer, Ferguson Brewing Company
- 2018-11-14: Google Cloud Digital Conference - Let's Talk AI, webinar
- 2018-11-20: Venture Cafe Night: 39°N, Danforth Plant Science Center
- 2018-12-22: St. Louis Illini Club, Braggin' Rights 2018 pregame party, Tin Roof St. Louis