Contemplating a new MacBook Air
When the MacBook Air first came out, in early 2008, I thought it was totally cool, but I figured it...
Sleep etc
I was actually sleeping pretty well for most of the time between my return from Chicago and my flight to...
SH on World Fantasy Award ballot
Two months ago, the nominees for this year's World Fantasy Award were announced. (For works published in 2009.) Ever since...
Tiny Cars of Palo Alto
Many years ago, Arthur E asked me if I had been to Tiny Cars of Palo Alto. I had never...
America’s Stonehenge, alpacas, and leaf-peeping
On Monday, Julia and I set out for a leaf-peeping expedition to New Hampshire. I had spent a while looking...
Do the Funky Alpaca
I'll post at some point about yesterday's adventures. For now, suffice it to say that alpacas really don't look real....
Why Alec Baldwin can’t marry a man
There's a group called Fight Back New York that's attempting to defeat NY state senators who voted against marriage equality...
Treat Facebook like a public blog
I sympathize with the privacy concerns people have been expressing for some time about Facebook. A few months back, I...
SH fiction annual temporary closure
The SH fiction department is temporarily closing to subs at the end of October, as we often do. For details,...
Another Boston-visit update
Tuesday: Attended lovely roundsing. A little unusual: a higher than usual percentage of attendees could sight-sing, so we weren't as...
The end of an email signature?
In 1986, I arrived at Swarthmore, and I started using email. (Obligatory irrelevant “back in my day”: in those days,...
MBTA route plotter
Jeff K has created a nifty MBTA route plotter that lets you view approximate current (and recent) locations of Boston-area...