A future anti-religious US?
I've seen a fair number of sf stories (submitted to SH over the years) set in a future USA in...
Author Archive
Cooking with tofu
I was in the grocery store the other day, shopping while hungry once again, and came across a little jar...
Favorite movies watched in 2012
I watched 70 movies in 2012: 49 that I hadn't seen before, 21 that I had (though usually not in...
Not the scorpion and the frog
I liked this bit from The Good Wife (season 1, ep 14, “Hi”): Cary: I can't help it, you know,...
3D printing explosion
Seems like everyone's talking about 3D printing lately. For the first time, I'm actually tempted to buy a 3D printer,...
TV notes
People recommend shows to me, and I put them on my to-watch list, and then it usually takes me months...
TV: Big-picture story vs individual episodes
I've tried out nearly a dozen new-to-me TV series recently; I'll post more about them soon, but for now I...
Solstice
Can't sleep—have been sick all week, and although I've been getting gradually better, tonight my neck started hurting to the...
Fourteen lines for fifteen years
Yesterday was Mary Anne's and my fifteenth anniversary. I've been thinking about relationships, and about Wendell Berry's poem “The Country...
Mary Anniversary
Today is Mary Anne's and my fifteenth anniversary. I'll be heading off to Chicago for a few days this afternoon....
Three orchestral flash mobs
The first of these videos I saw was the WDR Radio Orchestra showing up seemingly out of nowhere in the...
If I only had a brain lyrics mystery
I was listening to the extended version of “If I Only Had a Brain” the other day (it's the version...