Tomorrowland
I just watched the movie Tomorrowland, and I'm surprised I haven't seen more people posting about it. It's the story...
Thanks to Matt at Things tech support
I've been using the task-list-management app Things since 2009. It's far from perfect, but it's the only to-do-list software that...
House rules for playing Slash
At WisCon 2014, Vylar Kaftan introduced a bunch of us to a very entertaining fast-paced casual game called Slash: it's...
Downtime
Today is a downtime day. Last night, after some work on a Mysterious Project that went quite well, I got...
Deportees
Back in January 2014, I attended folksinger John McCutcheon's annual Santa Cruz concert, a benefit (as always) for the Resource...
On trigger warnings
I gather that there's a backlash against trigger warnings going on. Rather than continue to have this argument every time...
WisCon Friday
Had an odd and kind of off-kilter day yesterday. Did some day-job work in the morning, then a playtesting round...
Letters from Peter: Haircuts
More old letters! This time they're from my father to my uncle, apparently from the early 1970s. (They're all undated,...
Randomized Dystopias
Want to write a dystopia, but you're tired of dystopias that abrogate the same old rights that dystopias always abrogate?...
Today’s plan
What I ought to do today: House cleaning, prep for upcoming travel, some overdue day-job stuff, respond to emails, run...
Tech is bad, nature is good
For a long time, we've been reading stories and books about how things mediated through technology are bad and being...
Hamilton rap becomes a musical
In 2009, composer/lyricist/performer Lin-Manuel Miranda performed an amazing hip-hop piece about Alexander Hamilton (5-min video, with mostly-accurate captions) at the...