A Home on the Digital Range

Writing, projects, and curiosities

An ASCII-art buffalo on the wall of a cave. The initials “SK” and the date “12,789 BC” are inscribed at lower right.

My first blog post, from 12,789 BC

Recent

Review: Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger”: The Challenger disaster happened in an instant, but Adam Higginbotham shows it was years in the making, one accepted risk at a time.
Noticed, September 2026: Untold Holmesian tales, Beautiful Public Data, Tilly the platypus, “The Egg”
My Father’s Space Age: Klaus Krause captured America at its best with envelopes postmarked at the launches, landings, and first flights of the Space Age.

Projects

Here are a few projects of mine from elsewhere on the web:

Fairmind creates fair-minded guides to polarizing issues such as abortion and the death penalty. It uses Fairmind Format, a way to explain such topics fairly, accurately, and concisely.
Americans Agree tracked where Democrats, Republicans, and Independents found common ground, and analyzed why these points of agreement did or did not become law.