Items: Hodgepodge and mishmash
No discernible theme this time, just a collection of whatever happens to be sitting in my open browser windows: Last...
Peter memorial article
The Pierce College student newspaper, the Pioneer, ran a front-page story about Peter, along with a couple of sidebars and...
Art, money, property, anarchism
I'm astonished to discover that I've never written here about J. S. G. Boggs, an artist whose best-known work involves drawing detailed...
Words easily confused #15
Time for another installment. (To see previous editions, search my journal for the phrase "words easily" (no quotes)—that'll show the...
How’m I doing?
People have been (quite reasonably) asking how I'm doing lately, and I don't have a good answer. Mostly I say...
Review: Bet Me
The main problem with Jennifer Crusie books is that I have a hard time putting them down. Bet Me isn't...
Another telemarketing mini-rant
I was going to write something like this: If there's one thing I hate more than telemarketing calls where there's...
Meme in my pants
There are two long fairly serious entries I want to write soon: one about the origins of my zeppelin story...
Ten belated things
I was just about all ready to post this back on March 7, which was already long after most other...
Items: Flying cars
As Avery "Sisko" Brooks put it in a very entertaining IBM commercial a few years back: "It is the year...
Email blocking
A word of advice to writers who submit stories (to anyone) via email: If your mail system or ISP blocks...
Old radio and cylindrical devices
Kam's parents are members of the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto; last night, the museum sponsored a show...