A week ago was May 1. I meant to write something here about Kam that day, and then every day...
Jim Hines posted yesterday about the Best Editor categories of the Hugo ballot. A friend asked who might've been on...
The problem with doing one little minor computer task late at night (like, say, "sync my new books to my...
This weekend went surprisingly well in various ways: I completed something like a dozen to-do items that I had been...
In the late 1980s, I was delighted to discover N. Leigh Dunlap's comic strip Morgan Calabresé. It was mostly about...
I just picked up the printed book of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, and so far it's regularly...
I recently came across a remarkable thing: A file folder full of letters that my mother wrote to her parents...
My aunt Kathleen died yesterday. She's been in my family for twenty-five years. I never spent a lot of time...
I still haven't finished writing any of the real blog posts I want to write about the Hugo situation. For...
I keep seeing the phrase “young girl” used in all sorts of contexts. It almost always bugs me, because it...
Pro: Am in Hawaiʻi. Con: My suitcase didn't arrive on my flight, and the airline person wasn't even a little...
The vernal equinox was four hours ago here in the northern hemisphere. In honor of that, here's my traditional...