So the fall turned out to be vastly worse than the summer in terms of busy. At some point I really need to sit down and read the copy of The 4-Hour Workweek that I bought months ago. But in the meantime, I decided to at least make some aesthetic changes to the site, and move to easier-to-manage software to run it. Now if I could just find time someday to add new stuff to it more regularly…
Sorry for being away for a while, it has been a rather busy summer. Some of it I took photos of: a visit to the site of the Freedman’s Cemetery in Dallas, taking the interns to Industrial Light & Magic, wandering around Boston with the fellas, and randomly going to the coast. I hope that all has been well with you.
Over the years, I’ve taken to running the Ars Technica benchmark on nearly every machine I’ve gotten my hands on since around 2000 or so. While the applicability of this benchmark (or any benchmark, for that matter) to reality is questionable, it is interesting to see how a bunch of machines have fared on the same tests over the years. Here, for your entertainment, are the results.
Last weekend I visited the Colonel Allensworth State Historical Park in California’s Central Valley. The park is on the site of Allensworth, a town founded 100 years ago by Colonel Allen Allensworth and four other African American pioneers. Their mission was to create a self-sustaining community where African Americans could build better lives for themselves. A dwindling water supply, diversion of railroad activity to a neighboring town, and the defeat in the State Legislature of a Tuskegee-inspired vocational school envisioned for Allensworth led to the town’s decline, but fortunately its legacy lives on. Here are photos I took during my visit.
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