It s quite the sight to see Governor Cox, Senator Stuart Adams and the MIDA board fall all over themselves to allow a datacenter encompassing 60 square miles be built in Box Elder County. Suddenly, AI datacenters are job creators instead of job destroyers. Suddenly, lights-out datacenters need more people than an automobile factory to run. [ ]
I know without a doubt, I will be there when you meet your end. Heather looked me straight in the eye when she said that and I felt the air shake. It was in the early months of our relationship. It has a completely different context now. Gnostics, dual-slits, Max Planck, flatworms, whirlpools, eleven dimensions, [ ]
Heather and I used to make and exchange playlists for each other. Here are the ones I made for her, plus a playlist at the end which I made after she died, which felt like Heather controlling the discovery. Día de Muertos.
My questions for mayoral candidates continues to be irrelevant, and boy, do I hunger for those halcyon days when I cared so much about city government. Yes, if you re wondering, it is awful. Yes, every day sucks. Yes, I m still getting up, feeding and walking the dog, cleaning the (empty) house, and wondering what just [ ]
On April 12th, I emailed/submitted/Facebooked every declared Salt Lake City Mayoral candidate a list of questions regarding issues that are important to me. As of May 14th, I have received three responses, which I have posted below, but as of today, no mayoral candidate has answered a single question. I will continue to update this [ ]
I remember her waking me up while I was in my sleeping bag. My mother sat on the edge of my motorhome bunk and looked out the window with a cup of tea in her hand. She told me the lunar eclipse had started. I peered out and saw a blurry red shadow move over [ ]
As the Internet was taking off and organizations were coming to grips with its openness, I had a few customers and organizations that were under consistent attack. I was repeatedly asked to kick them off XMission because of their thoughts and ideals. This ranged from someone who was exposing the Church of Scientology, to an [ ]
Yesterday, one of my Facebook friends angrily denounced Indivisible Utah as being turncoats. This was due to a recent meeting or announcement that they were going to support moderate Republicans. Want to know a secret? I agonized over the same idea. My belief is that Democrats will not elect a candidate to statewide office over [ ]
In 2012, I was defeated in convention by a man who refused to stand up for an individual s right to marry whom they wish. The Democratic candidate for governor in the same year also had the same stand. In this week, we have also seen Utah s only Democrat in congress announce he would not seek [ ]
To the members of the House Government Operations Committee, We the undersigned believe that HB60 is a bad bill for business for the following reasons. 1) It restricts UTOPIA as an entity from expanding, regardless of whether its member cities are served or not, or whether other cities would like to join. This is a [ ]