I was at the Food City in Pulaski when I saw him. It was back in the summer of 2015, I believe. It was a warm day, for sure, because I thought it was unseasonable for when he’s normally been seen in the area. Anyways, I was out doing our weekly shopping, turning the corner […]
Benefits and distribution of broadband access
This post is the first in a series of blog posts which will attempt to identify barriers to access to broadband Internet and other technologies vital in today’s economy. In 2011, my soon to be wife and I decided to move back to her home town here in Pulaski. I had a good job with a government […]
A different perspective on the NRV
We tend to think that the world around us exists in the colors we perceive based on the photo-receptors in our eyes responding most strongly to red, green, and blue light, and our brain combining those impulses in a particular way. But consider an image through an infrared scanner or night vision goggles, and you get an […]
Images of change in coal country
As lovers of the Appalachian mountains in which we live, it is very disturbing to hear about the mountaintop removal operations to extract coal from beneath their peaks. But unless you happen to live in the directly affected communities, it may be hard to see the impact. Even in the affected communities, the full physical […]