by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2026 | Newsletter
If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter and want to subscribe, add your email at the Granite Geek blog: granitegeek.concordmonitor.com Suggestions or comments? Drop me a line: dbrooks@cmonitor.com I’m on Bluesky and Mastodon (the newsie.social server) these...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
A company called Rotor is working to develop an autonomous helicopter, or at least a remotely-controlled one, in buildings at the former Daniel Webster College in Nashua. As I noted in a 2024 article (here), they’re an MIT spinoff and Nashua was the closest...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has so many hiking trails that if stretched out, they’d reach California and partway back, but one small section is drawing attention right now — a reminder that these “natural” paths that make life in the Granite State so delightful require a ridiculous...
by David Brooks | Feb 9, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
early January, representatives from Mount Washington Observatory (MWOBS), Vaisala, and the Omni Mount Washington Resort collaborated to install New Hampshire’s first ground-based scanning LiDAR. The Vaisala WindCube 200S Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR), located...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
Time to rerun this piece from 2016: I have a fairly long driveway next to an open field, and at least once every winter, snow drifts across it to the point where things get dicey without all-wheel drive. For two decades, I have talked about setting up a snow fence to...
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