Apr
27
We just got our renewal to our State Farm homeowner’s policy, and like every year, there’s a rider with new exclusions of coverage.
I thought this one was ominous:
“This policy is revised to exclude coverage for loss arising out of nuclear reaction, radiation or radioactive contamination from any source, or any detonation of, or release of [...]
Oct
16
Dragonspies
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Although flying drones have been around for a long time, according to this article in yesterday’s Washington Post, the use of them has increased fourfold since 2004, to 160,000 hours of flight time in 2006. But now we are getting closer to tiny, insect-like drones. Even weirder, scientists are experimenting with controlling [...]