That syncing feeling
The problem with doing one little minor computer task late at night (like, say, "sync my new books to my...
Good weekend
This weekend went surprisingly well in various ways: I completed something like a dozen to-do items that I had been...
Morgan Calabresé on coming out
In the late 1980s, I was delighted to discover N. Leigh Dunlap's comic strip Morgan Calabresé. It was mostly about...
Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
I just picked up the printed book of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, and so far it's regularly...
My middle name
I recently came across a remarkable thing: A file folder full of letters that my mother wrote to her parents...
R.I.P., Aunt Kathleen
My aunt Kathleen died yesterday. She's been in my family for twenty-five years. I never spent a lot of time...
Lack of condemnation doesn’t equal approval
I still haven't finished writing any of the real blog posts I want to write about the Hugo situation. For...
Peeve: How young is a “young girl”?
I keep seeing the phrase “young girl” used in all sorts of contexts. It almost always bugs me, because it...
Birthday week so far
Pro: Am in Hawaiʻi. Con: My suitcase didn't arrive on my flight, and the airline person wasn't even a little...
Equinox
The vernal equinox was four hours ago here in the northern hemisphere. In honor of that, here's my traditional...
That which does not kill us can still hurt
The other day, I saw yet another article that conveyed the very common narrative that difficulties and hardships make us...
Attacking the compiler: Xcode and “Trusting Trust”
The Intercept recently published a long but interesting article about (among other things) CIA-connected researchers' attempts to subvert Xcode, the...