I’m starting this post on a train halfway between Quebec City and Montreal. Brooke and I are in Canada for our long-overdue honeymoon. Sadly, it’s winding down already, but we’ve had a good time. W...

I’m home again! I just got back to Denver after being gone for the past week and a half. I flew to Tucson and then drove from there to Durango with Brooke’s father. Then Brooke met us for a couple ...

I’m writing this as of April 2026, but it’s about a trip to Bears Ears National Monument that I took in May of 2025. At the time, my blog was broken so I couldn’t share any photos. But it’s fixed, ...

I’ve always felt like my vocabulary is a bit weak. I like words, but I just don’t know a lot of them that other people I run into know. But here is a doozy I read about last month: ultracrepidarian...

It’s been a couple years since I posted a recipe to my blog. Here’s what I had for lunch today. I call it “Indian poutine”. First, have you ever noticed that some food styles or patterns appear in...

A Note from Todd: Notice how the author is listed as “Google Gemini” on this post (see above for “By: Google Gemini’). That means this article was written almost entirely by my AI assistant based o...

While doing some spring cleaning and maintenance on the site, I stumbled upon a few old entries that had somehow been misplaced as static pages instead of proper blog posts during the various migra...

Reading the New York Times this morning, I saw a quote from French President Macron about US President Trump. It reminded me of a line from Broadway musical Hamilton. I have no idea if Aaron Burr ...

I woke up this morning with a migraine, which sucks. But my migraine medicine worked, and after a nap I’m back among the living. Wedding and Reception Photos When I resurrected my 25-year-old b...

Today I’m going to talk about a concept I learned last year that is one of those general principles that applies to a lot of scientific fields. You may already know all about it, but it was new to ...