Many years ago there were a small enough machines on the Internet that everybody remembered their names and IP address. Later, this became a single file (hosts.txt) that was shared around. Life was good, shag carpet was considered in-style, and bell-bottoms pretty-neat. Disco ruled. Fast forward to the early 80’s. DNS was invented. It scaled…

So yes I rode in this am. No it was not warm. The main issues were: The snow in the park was about 15-20cm deep and frozen. My wheels sunk in and then i was full stopped! Revert to the road. No amount of power was going to go through that The battery provides negligible…

So it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to corelate that colder weather means less juice in the batteries of your e-bike. This manifests itself in range for sure, but more obviously in torque. There’s just a lot less assist available. Unlike electric cars, e-bikes don’t have battery conditioning (like an air-conditioner/heater for the batteries). In…

Today I learned about a fish-shaped iron ingot. You can buy one on Amazon! It was invented as a means of increasing the iron in diets of folks with iron-deficiency and anaemia in Cambodia by a University of Guelph student, and funded through Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Upon observing that pregnant women in Cambodia…

Entropy. Its the clutter on your desk, the noise from your fan, the randomness in your life. We spent most of our lives trying to reduce entropy (filing things, sorting, making order from chaos). But what if I told you there is an entropy shortage somewhere near you, and, that you should care? Would you…