Roundsing at Swarthmore in 11+ hours
I'm on my way to sleep, but it just occurred to me that I ought to mention here that we'll...
Apollo 11: Forty years later
Lane Wallace discusses spaceflight, sense of wonder, and technology—noting, for example, that the Apollo 11 computer had 36K of memory....
Reporting YouTube videos
Some day it may happen that you come across a YouTube video that violates the service's community guidelines. For example,...
KGB tonight (Delany et al reading in NYC)
In case any of y'all New Yorkers don't know: The KGB Bar (85 East 4th Street, just off 2nd Ave)...
Color-coded personality types
Today at work, we did various exercises relating to the "True Colors" personality categorization system. I gather it's sort of...
Items with assorted themes
These links are sort of grouped thematically, but there are only two or three per grouping, so I decided to...
Items with no theme
Some links with no particular unifying theme other than closing browser windows: Discussion of the history of the honeycrisp apple,...
R.I.P., Charles Brown
I'm sorry to hear that Charles N. Brown, publisher of Locus for the past forty years, has died. For some...
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Saw Mrs. Henderson Presents with Twig last night. Quite good, very much worth watching. Judi Dench is fabulous as always....
My recent movie- and TV-watching
Some mini-reviews of movies and DVDs I've watched lately.
What I’ve been up to
It's been a couple of weeks since my last life-update post. I don't feel like much has been going on,...
May and June submissions
Looks like I failed to post a submission report for May. Sorry about that. Here's a combined report for May...