Stonekettle Station

…of Air Force One making final approach on Elmendorf Air Force Base over the port of Anchorage. Thought you might get a ...

  My old phone, a Motorola V710, has been dying a slow death for the last several months.  I was reluctant to scrap it though, basical...

I want this (you can watch with the sound muted if you're at work): helicoptere personnel For those of you actually interested in this g...

Bad news folks (or good news for some, I guess, depending). I’ll probably stop blogging. In fact I’ll probably stop sleeping, eating, an...

This: It’s amazing to me how much technology has changed the world just within my lifetime. Hell, just within the last couple of yea...

Man, I like this.

I meant to do this a couple of days ago, but I've been swamped lately and the time just keeps slipping by. I got a postcard from Anne ...

We took the new Delorme GPS unit out for a test drive this weekend. My son was over at a friend's house for the day, so my wife and ...

(updates at the end of the post) I like to know where I'm at, especially when I'm hiking in the wilds of Alaska. I've got an e...

Meet Boston Dynamic's BigDog - a whole lot cooler and more advanced than that stupid Japanese walking toaster , what an asimo: Accordin...

The USS Lake Erie shot down a falling satellite on the first try. Man I love typing that. Having been part of a number of missile shoots my...

This is the kind of innovation we need more of.

I own a number of computers, about ten in all, scattered throughout Stonekettle Station. I use the big monster HP tower in the den for writ...

After the last post I needed to step away from the computer for an hour or so. I spent 45 minutes in the shop, hollowing out a bowl on the ...

This is the Knik (pronounced K-nik, say the "Cuh" sound) Glacier from my back window. It's about fifteen miles away, at the ...

I was helping my son with his science homework this evening. Using the internet, he was supposed to look up an active volcano and write down...