by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
f you are like me, you have wrestled with a lot of puzzles during these stay-at-home months. Jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, Sudokus, chess puzzles, retrograde chess puzzles (intriguing; check it out), even one those metal puzzles you try to take apart while...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
AltaVista was probably the best of the pre-Google search engines, created by Digital Equipment Corp. mostly to help them sell their DEC Alpha processor line. It was launched in January 1996, a cool quarter-century ago. Vice has a nice overview (read it here) of why it...
by David Brooks | Jan 3, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
At Concord Municipal Airport, the official measuring station for New Hampshire according to the National Weather Service, 2020 was the fifth warmest year by average temperature in 130+ years. Perhaps a more significant point is that we haven’t had a top-10 cold...
by David Brooks | Jan 1, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
From the Boston Globe story: Massachusetts currently has about 30,000 electric vehicles on the roads, a number which may include hybrid vehicles, officials said. They set the goal of increasing that number to 750,000 by 2035, when all new “light-duty” vehicles, or...
by David Brooks | Jan 1, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Dec. 27 to Jan. 3. *** RegDOX Solutions Assigned Patent for Secure Document Storage System RegDOX Solutions, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,880,309, initially...
by David Brooks | Dec 30, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Looking through 2020’s posts on GraniteGeek was an exercise in “COVID took over everything” but I managed a few otherwise-overlooked items that had nothing to do with viruses. Here are some that caught my eye: January: It’s legal for state...
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