Some snowy Colorado scenes from this afternoon --> bouldercast.com/boulder-webc... #Colorado #COwx #Denver #Snow

La lune à un mètre (Georges Méliès, 1898)

Artemis was cool

happy anniversary of when almost nothing happened

12.7 million battery electric vehicles were sold globally in 2025.

In 2010, the number was barely 10,000.

In China, 1 in 2 new cars sold last year was electric.

The transition is happening faster than almost anyone predicted.

Learned this week that two people I know from two different walks of life have direct connections to a TV show (?) that I'd never heard of called The Floor - very "two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice"

Thread, I ❤️ research

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Earth Temperature Timeline

Original creator of course xkcd.com/1732/

Bottom-most section of the climate change timeline cartoon from xkcd

I divided the XKCD climate change cartoon for easier social media sharing. Files including a ZIP are on my site. craigearley.com/2026/04/03/t...

Did some rewatches in between, but I don't log those on the three-circle movie website

Letterboxd log of last four movies: Banjo the Woodpile Cat, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Gugusse Et L'automate

Back from a little break, and it's apparently #LetterboxdFriday. My recent viewing was the two Oscar frontrunners (loved both), a Don Bluth cartoon I hadn't seen, and the lost-and-found Georges Méliès film about a robot.

There are certain queer times in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke

Important Productions in the History of the Science-Fiction Film (1980) Published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1980 edition, p 125. A time capsule in what you might call the historiography of science fiction cinema. The contents are informed by the...

Reading a science fiction magazine (what is now Asimov's Science Fiction) from 1980, and they ran a list of "Important Productions in the History of the Science-Fiction Film". So I created a Letterboxd list to capture it. letterboxd.com/craigearley/...

The science breakthrough of 2025 is Solar Energy, not because it is new but because of how successful its deployment has been. This year renewable energy surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Hopeful sign for what’s to come.
www.science.org/content/arti...

Remember, those brown plumes are blowing dust. Smoke is white/gray! Lots of blowing dust near the base of the Foothills this afternoon where winds are gusting 70-95 mph right now! #cowx

Trump moves to shut down Boulder climate research lab NCAR U.S. lawmakers representing Colorado called the planned NCAR closure “deeply dangerous” and “blatantly retaliatory.”

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, a Democrat who represents Boulder, called the move to close NCAR “a deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration.” // Story by @laurenpenington.bsky.social

There is magic in it.

@mattgrossmann.bsky.social, Caleb Lucas, and I are thrilled to have an updated version of CongressData (V3). In it, we offer new data, including on the 19th century, data on polarization, among others. See our GitHub: github.com/IPPSR/Congre..., R package, and Shiny: cspp.ippsr.msu.edu/congress/

To honor the winter break on the horizon, Letterboxd crew and contributors share twenty underseen holiday favorites: where Christmas and Hanukkah deep cuts and surprisingly festive noir and stop-motion delights all have a seat at the table. boxd.it/2QQ

Made by me because I couldn't find a version I liked online :)

I think about this moment from Willy Wonka (1971) an average of once per workday.

Per NWS:

It's **official**:

Denver International Airport has reported 0.2" of snow, ending Denver's snow "drought" and solidifying this as the 2nd latest snowfall on record for the city. #cowx

A graph of US monthly solar generation

Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

View-Master disc with seven dinosaur images each twice around the outer edge of the circle

Going through some boxes while wrapping some gifts and I found this old View-Master reel with dinosaurs. For a while as a kid, this was probably my #1 favorite toy.

📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢

It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐

Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...

Site: www.hacklore.org

Not sure that's interesting enough to qualify as "lore" but 🤷

Brief hiatus after graduating, went back to it in 2018 and haven't stopped since.

Learned enough HPC and sysadmin to be dangerous.

(I'm not exaggerating - as a student worker and in my first few professional years I made some serious mistakes that affected users badly that I still regret.)