Earlier this month, as you have likely heard, a door blew off of a Boeing 737 Max 9 in midair. Fortunately, while one teenager’s shirt was sucked off, nobody suffered serious injuries. Airlines have been inspecting the doors on their 737 Max 9 aircraft, and they’re reportedly finding issues with bolts that keep the doors in place. Late one night last week, I had some time to ponder this while sitting on a Boeing plane that was having a technical malfunction on the ground.

i’m back in the middle of a horrid grinding obsession with adventure time. i know, i know, when am i not, but like, for real, it’s intense and A Lot and i feel bad about continually messaging unsuspecting friends about it so instead i’m sending it in an email to dozens of people.  anyway so the harm i am inflicting on you today, dear reader, is an overly involved post about martin mertens, noted deadbeat dad/head trauma-sufferer.

Elisabeth Elliot: A Life by Lucy S. R. Austen (Crossway, 2023). When I was growing up, the name Elisabeth Elliot meant one thing to me: Passion and Purity, her 1984 book that helped shape the views of an evangelical generation on love, sex, and marriage. It was a very long time before I could hear her name without mentally wincing. Elliot’s life and career, in fact, were a strange mixture of striving to live authentically for God, and advocating standards that she herself had found impossible to live up to.

It's time to review a two million word story that's been capturing my free time lately: Lord of the Mysteries and answer the question in our minds: was it worth it, or is it just Stockholm Syndrome? This review was originally available at https://recordcrash.com/blog, dated July 31st, 2020. Lord of the Mysteries (诡秘之主) is a Chinese western fantasy webnovel written by the Chinese author Cuttlefish That Loves Diving (爱潜水的乌贼) With the rising tide of steam power and machinery, who can come close to being a Beyonder?

Hey Everyone, I’m sort of always watching news about Snowflake and Databricks, since they will obviously evolve into important companies and especially for data workers and tech engineers of various kinds. Data analytics and AI software maker Databricks has raised a Series I round worth more than $500 million, earning a valuation of $43 billion. Series I, when are you going public already guys! Snowflake has a $53 Billion valuation on the public market.