Twelve years
Twelve years ago today, my father was killed. I've been off-kilter for the past couple weeks; sometimes fine, sometimes sad...
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Hold the line: How best to contact Congress
Long but fascinating article about the effectiveness of various means of contacting US members of Congress. It contradicts some things...
Speed up, slow down, repeat
Something that happens surprisingly often when I'm driving on the freeway: I'm in lane 2 (where lane 1 is the...
Mood-swingy
On the plus side: Recently acquired a lovely glass Klein bottle. Warm sunshine and blue skies have lifted my spirits...
Time and Again
I've somehow for years had the idea that Jack Finney's 1970 novel Time and Again (which I hadn't read) was...
Another FBI-file update
In today's mail: Another envelope from the FBI! In response to my FOIA request about my father, which I filed...
Day of Remembrance for the incarceration of Japanese Americans
Today is a Day of Remembrance: the 75th anniversary of FDR's executive order to incarcerate Japanese Americans. A bunch of...
Easy quick intro to contacting your members of Congress
Yesterday, I attended a really useful-to-me presentation titled "Activism 101: Finding your voice in government," about how to engage with...
Duolingo Spanish progress update
Every so often as I go through Duolingo Spanish lessons, I hit a wall. Right at the start, for example,...
News distortion example: AI, competition, and cooperation
An example of how news gets distorted: DeepMind, which is part of Alphabet (Google's parent company), published an interesting and...
Helen describes herself (1931)
Among my old family papers is a folder containing a handwritten document by my grandmother Helen, in which she described...
Pete Seeger on helping
Pete Seeger died three years ago yesterday, so my post about him came up in my Facebook history today. It...