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Productive day

Today I spent a few hours pre-cleaning before the cleaners got here--the level of clutter was such that they would...

Jed

August 8, 2016
Filed under: Comics, Life Updates
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Heavenly Breakfast

Latest randomly chosen book from my unread shelves: Delany's 1979 memoir Heavenly Breakfast. Which, as I opened it, gave me...

Jed

August 5, 2016
Filed under: Books, Speculative Fiction, Writers
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Randomly choosing books

I have this list of the unread books on my shelves, alphabetized by author's last name, and I'm trying to...

Jed

August 5, 2016
Filed under: Books, Programming
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State of the vacation

An update on how my leave has been going: It's been a weird week. I've been mostly getting plenty of...

Jed

July 22, 2016
Filed under: Life Updates, Movies, Sleep, Socializing, Travel
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Misleading graphs

I've seen several potentially misleading graphs in articles lately, so here's a reminder of a couple of common y-axis issues:...

Jed

July 22, 2016
Filed under: Complexity, Improving Society, Journalism, Science, Tech Writing
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Lovely short VR video: “Pearl”

A while back, Google created a system for viewing VR/360° videos called “Google Spotlight Stories.” You can view the short...

Jed

July 21, 2016
Filed under: Movies, Parents/Children/Family
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More dreams

Dreamed I was watching an amazing sunset, with impressionistic splotches of fiery purple and sullen bruise-like maroon and bright crimson...

Jed

July 20, 2016
Filed under: Dreams, Parents/Children/Family
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Bettyann

So I've been halfheartedly reading/skimming all this old science fiction, and I started in on Raymond J. Healy's 1951 anthology...

Jed

July 15, 2016
Filed under: Short Stories, Speculative Fiction
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On leave

My company doesn't have sabbaticals per se any more, but they do allow people to take extended unpaid leave, with...

Jed

July 12, 2016
Filed under: Friendship, Life Updates, Photos, Sleep, Socializing, Travel, Work, Writing
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Introducing the Hansons

Last month, I posted about the Olsons—my grandmother's mother and aunts and uncles, at least twelve of them in all....

Jed

June 29, 2016
Filed under: Family History, Photos
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House dreams

I woke up and wondered why it had never occurred to me before that my bedroom has a largish hole...

Jed

June 15, 2016
Filed under: Dreams
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“How Can We Sink When We Can Fly?”

I'm reading Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year from 1972, and most of the stories in it, although...

Jed

June 11, 2016
Filed under: Improving Society, Politics, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction
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