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...
Belated Beltane
A week ago was May 1. I meant to write something here about Kam that day, and then every day...
Who would’ve been on the Best Editor Hugo ballots?
Jim Hines posted yesterday about the Best Editor categories of the Hugo ballot. A friend asked who might've been on...
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...