Indian and Russian Technology

You know, folks, I’ve been thinking about the great nations of the world and what they’re good at. Now, some people will tell you that every group of people has its strengths. The Irish can drink, the French can surrender, the Canadians can apologize. But when it comes to engineers and technology, I have formed…

We Die Young

In Seattle, there was a peculiar thing that happened in the late 80s and early 90s. The weather was always wet, the skies mostly gray, and the streets slicked with rain and possibility, though neither one seemed to go anywhere. And so it was, in the birthplace of grunge—when the amplifiers hummed with distortion and…