Today I spent a few hours pre-cleaning before the cleaners got here--the level of clutter was such that they would...
Latest randomly chosen book from my unread shelves: Delany's 1979 memoir Heavenly Breakfast. Which, as I opened it, gave me...
I have this list of the unread books on my shelves, alphabetized by author's last name, and I'm trying to...
An update on how my leave has been going: It's been a weird week. I've been mostly getting plenty of...
I've seen several potentially misleading graphs in articles lately, so here's a reminder of a couple of common y-axis issues:...
A while back, Google created a system for viewing VR/360° videos called “Google Spotlight Stories.” You can view the short...
Dreamed I was watching an amazing sunset, with impressionistic splotches of fiery purple and sullen bruise-like maroon and bright crimson...
So I've been halfheartedly reading/skimming all this old science fiction, and I started in on Raymond J. Healy's 1951 anthology...
My company doesn't have sabbaticals per se any more, but they do allow people to take extended unpaid leave, with...
Last month, I posted about the Olsons—my grandmother's mother and aunts and uncles, at least twelve of them in all....
I woke up and wondered why it had never occurred to me before that my bedroom has a largish hole...
I'm reading Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year from 1972, and most of the stories in it, although...