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On Shane, toxic masculinity, violence, and vicious cycles

I think it’s fascinating to observe toxic masculinity in action in Westerns. (Some quasi-spoilers here for Shane (1953).) In this...

Jed

October 22, 2017
Filed under: Gender, Improving Society, Movies
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Unread-books project update

I started this project with about 350 unread mass-market paperbacks on my bookshelves, and I bought about 30 more shortly...

Jed

October 21, 2017
Filed under: Books
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Alien generators

The excellent old tabletop roleplaying game Fringeworthy had a page of tables for quickly generating the physical appearance of an...

Jed

October 10, 2017
Filed under: Software, Speculative Fiction
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Productivity

I’m in Santa Fe for a few days. Mary Anne is here for a Wild Cards authors gathering, and I’m...

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October 10, 2017
Filed under: Life Updates, Speculative Fiction, Writing
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More great family-history material

Last night, I had dinner with family, and audio-recorded some family stories, and received two amazing troves of family documents:...

Jed

September 24, 2017
Filed under: Family History
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Weekend update

Had a good weekend. KTO visited. Among other things, we got dinner from Everest Cuisine (tasty Nepalese & Indian food)...

Jed

September 10, 2017
Filed under: Life Updates
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Letters from my mother to her parents

We've digitized a set of 23 letters from my mother to her parents, dated 1964 through 1968; I've been posting...

Jed

September 8, 2017
Filed under: Family History
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Sleepily

Last night, after procrastinating all day on writing up my list of recent accomplishments at work (it was due yesterday),...

Jed

September 6, 2017
Filed under: Life Updates, Sleep
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Google developer documentation style guide now available!

The long-planned official blog post about the editorial style guide that I own/maintain at work has finally gone live, as...

Jed

September 6, 2017
Filed under: Editing, Milestones, Work
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Busy weekend

I haven't posted a life update here in ages. Not sure why; just haven't felt the urge, I guess. Rather...

Jed

September 5, 2017
Filed under: Humor, Life Updates, Nature, Theatre
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Women with wings

A couple of times in the past week or so, Libana's song “A River of Birds” has come up in...

Jed

August 26, 2017
Filed under: Short Stories, Strange Horizons
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Underground’s metadiscussion of slavery narratives

I'm watching Underground season 2, episode 1, “Contraband,” and I just got to a scene in which one of the...

Jed

August 16, 2017
Filed under: Commonplace Book, Education, Gender, History, Improving Society, Race/Ethnicity, Television
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