The Daily Parker

I have three books in the works and two on deck (imminently, not just in my to-be-read stack) right now. Reading:

• Neal Stephenson, Seveneves.
• Christopher Dickey, Our Man In Charleston.
• Gene Kim, et al., The Phoenix Project.

On deck:

• Kevin Hearne, "Iron Druid Chronicles" book 8: Staked.
• Kim Stanley Robinson, "Mars" trilogy book 2: Green Mars.

Meanwhile, I have these articles and blog posts to read, some for work, some because they're interesting:

• Deeply Trivial dissects the bogus claim that six coin tosses going the same way (a) decided the Iowa caucuses and (b) is improbable.
• Speaking of statistics, meteorologist Tom Skilling simultaneously describes our very mild winter and the coming Arctic blast next week, noting that the cold weather will be caused by significantly warmer-than-normal weather in Western North America.
• Bruce Schneier calls attention to the growing planet-sized robot we're creating. (No kidding; it's not even a little bit sci-fi.)
• The Chicago Public Schools have just borrowed $875 million at a penalty interest rate 75 bps over what they expected and something like 700 bps over prime, meaning the loan might be worse than not borrowing the money.
• Illinois State Senator Daniel Bliss (D-Evanston) points out that the dispute between Gov. Rauner and the State Legislature is philosophical, and the governor is flat wrong.
• Chicago has mixed politics with snow removal basically forever.
• L.A.'s iconic Sixth St. Viaduct is going away, as is the concrete river under it.
• Ted Cruz might have gone farther if he weren't such an asshole.
• Microsoft Azure Stack is a thing I need to learn about.
• So is ReSharper 10.1.

Time to read.

Meanwhile, I seem to have a cold. Yuck.