Here are some pictures from Abraham’s Spice Garden in Thekkady. We got a wonderful and extremely informative tour from the owner Abraham. We tasted various herbs ans spices as we walked along the garden and even tried the nectar from several flowers. This was my son’s favorite destination during the entire trip. Several of the…
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Here are some pictures from the Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary. It had the most number of different birds I’ve seen in the wild. If you visit, don’t forget your binoculars.
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Here are some pictures (4k resolution) from the backwaters in Kerala at Kumarakom.
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I’ve been keeping track of Tesla’s market share in the US for a while. In 2018, Tesla had a 53% market share in plugin vehicles, 80% market share of pure electrics and closed in on the sales of the top luxury brands. In 2019, as Tesla expanded Model 3 sales internationally, it maintained constant total…
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Here are some panoramas of the Painted Hills (John Day Fossil Beds National Monument) in Central Oregon perfectly sized for 1, 2 and 3 side by side 4k monitors. The wide panorama original files range from 40 megapixels to 150 megapixels. Contact s1dd@s1dd.com for originals.
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A few months ago, I posted about the pattern I noticed with Tesla short interest – that no matter what the stock price does, shorts adjust their bets to a constant $10 billion. As the stock has risen to new all time highs, this pattern continues. Here is a chart of Tesla short interest: Here…
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If you have gone through Elementary JavaScript and made the game or have made your own HTML and JavaScript game, follow this tutorial to turn your game into an Android App! The source code for the game converted to a Phone App is here on GitHub – Chapter 24 of Elementary JavaScript explains how to…
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One of my coworkers, Jessica Fake, made this excellent detailed presentation on her experience getting solar panels in Charlottesville. If all my previous posts have not pushed you over the edge, maybe this presentation will. Reproduced here with permission:
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Here is the presentation on my experience publishing a JavaScript book for Kids from BeCamp 2019.
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By now you must know that my son is helping me write a followup to my first book, Elementary JavaScript, called Intermediate JavaScript. And in this second book, our plan is to teach you how to make 2D Graphics games in JavaScript. We are working on a new version of BlobAttack built using Phaser. We…
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