David Herron
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
- Birthday
- July 06
- Title
- Blogger
- Bio
- I am a technologist living and writing in Silicon Valley. I am deeply interested in the intersection of humanity and technology, the proper role of technology in our lives, and how the decisions we make about technology impact us for good or bad.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Unemployment lets me explore
work I've long dreamt of doing
January 31, 2012 12:19PM - Review: The War Games (Doctor
Who)
August 24, 2009 02:14AM - Tolerance begins on the inside
June 11, 2009 02:51PM - The potential for quiet cities
April 12, 2009 07:30PM - On cow farts and fish oil and
global warming
April 01, 2009 04:04PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Stellaa, I've heard that
said before.. however I think
it is
the responsibility
o…”
April 12, 2009 07:47PM
Unemployment lets me explore work I've long dreamt of doing
I was an early casualty of The Great Recession and by the time of my layoff in January 2009 I was eager to be laid off. While I haven't found stable income as a writer, yet, I am happy to be unemployed because as an employed person I was slowly dying… Read full post »
Review: The War Games (Doctor Who)
Tolerance begins on the inside
The last couple weeks have seen several domestic terror attacks such as the murder of Dr. Tiller and the shootings at the Holocaust Memorial. There's been a lot of excellent coverage of domestic terrorism such as articles on salon.com about right wing hate and fear mongering and that they likel… Read full post »
The potential for quiet cities
What did you say? Huh? I can't hear you over the car that just drove by...... Our cities are noisy places and most of the noise comes from the cars and trucks that drive around. Gas and diesel powered vehicles make a lot of noise. Sure mufflers are getting better… Read full post »
On cow farts and fish oil and global warming
Earlier today in my scan of the blogosphere I saw an article about fish oil supplements being fed to cows to reduce flatulence and global warming. Huh? This connected in my mind to the stories I've read about cows farting being the real cause for global warming, and justification to dismi… Read full post »
We're supposed to *SPEND* the stimulus checks?
This morning listening to Morning Edition one of the talkers said it would be a disaster if stimulus checks went straight into savings accounts. Instead what stimulus is supposed to be triggering spending.
Um, this is weird. Healthy personal finance involves having a large quantity of sav… Read full post »
The problem is 'Usury'?
I'm not even sure what the word 'Usury' means. My minds only definition of this word comes from Sunday School and a biblical prohibition against Usury, which I had understood simply as making loans or taking debt. However, in todays Democracy Now they interviewed Thomas Geoghegan on “Infi… Read full post »
Drying clothes without environmental harm
How can drying clothes harm the environment or harm your clothes? Simple, drying clothes in the typical machine tumble dryer slowly harms your clothes. It's slow enough you won't see it, but that lint collecting in the lint trap comes from your clothes, right? Further electric dryers… Read full post »
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