As a famous ancient human once wrote
Back in 2003, I noted that when future-setting sf characters refer to “an ancient Terran word,” they nearly always mean...
Old review resurfaces
I recently read Voice, the latest completed volume of Carla Speed McNeil's excellent sf comic book Finder. This storyline is...
Productive day
Today I spent a few hours pre-cleaning before the cleaners got here--the level of clutter was such that they would...
Heavenly Breakfast
Latest randomly chosen book from my unread shelves: Delany's 1979 memoir Heavenly Breakfast. Which, as I opened it, gave me...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
More dreams
Dreamed I was watching an amazing sunset, with impressionistic splotches of fiery purple and sullen bruise-like maroon and bright crimson...
Bettyann
So I've been halfheartedly reading/skimming all this old science fiction, and I started in on Raymond J. Healy's 1951 anthology...
On leave
My company doesn't have sabbaticals per se any more, but they do allow people to take extended unpaid leave, with...
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....