SH Flashback: “Planet of the Amazon Women,” by David Moles
For the first five months of 2016, I posted an almost-weekly Strange Horizons retrospective, showcasing stories from my time as...
On the difficulty of recognizing one’s own biases
Another lesson for me on the difficulty of seeing outside your own cultural context: In Delany's City of a Thousand...
Fixing the garbage disposal
The most important thing I learned in high school stage tech was a paradigm. I usually phrase it this way:...
RIP, Steven L. Inness
When I was in 7th and 8th grade, at Wilbur Middle School, the school's computer lab had a couple of...
Ziggurat imagery in different tech levels
I've just started reading both Norman Spinrad's 1980 Songs from the Stars (first chapters set in a post-apocalypse quasi-ecotopia in...
Many socials
I guess the sequence started in April? Mary Anne visited the weekend of the 7th and we went to Speakeasy....
Pre-movie experience: before _Wonder Woman_
This is a report of my pre-movie experience at Wonder Woman last night. This post is not about the movie,...
Agents of SHIELD political commentary
I've been really enjoying the current storyline in Agents of SHIELD. It's doing a virtual-reality take on a sort of...
Spinner fidget toys
I recently learned about a hot new toy: the spinner fidget toy. You hold it between thumb and finger...
Two business models
Two business models for selling CDs on Venice Beach: Hand a CD to a passing individual tourist in a way...
Speeding to a stop
I was driving along in the right lane of a Mountain View street the other week when I passed a...
Starting points for reading Delany
In the past couple years, there've been about three times when I've had occasion to suggest starting points for reading...