Kith.org

Lorem Ipsum

The website of Jed Hartman

  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Puzzles
  • Hodgepodge
  • Sites
    • Loading
Search
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Puzzles
  • Hodgepodge
  • Sites
    • Loading

Astonishing balancing performance

I'm going to recommend a video in a minute. But first, some backstory: Kam and I went to see Cirque...

Jed

February 4, 2014
Filed under: Net Video, Theatre
1 Comment

Alternatives to Movable Type and WordPress?

I've been using Movable Type for my own blog since 2005, but have grown increasingly dissatisfied with it of late....

Jed

February 1, 2014
Filed under: Journaling, Web Tech
2 Comments

Picking up Sturgeon again

In 2001, I bought and read and enjoyed the first five volumes in North Atlantic Books's Complete Stories of Theodore...

Jed

February 1, 2014
Filed under: Books, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Writers
0 Comments

My top ten single-author short sf collections

Back in 2010, John DeNardo of SF Signal was kind enough to invite me to participate in one of their...

Jed

February 1, 2014
Filed under: Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Writers
0 Comments

R.I.P., Pete Seeger

I've been trying to figure out why Pete Seeger's death yesterday, at age 94, is hitting me so hard. Part...

Jed

January 28, 2014
Filed under: Death, Dreams, Improving Society, Music, Politics
1 Comment

Double rejection

Received two (friendly) rejections in the past 26 hours, for the only two stories I had out. I gotta say,...

Jed

January 27, 2014
Filed under: Writing
0 Comments

Sturgeon on monogamy

Theodore Sturgeon's 1951 story “Rule of Three” (spoilers!) features two tripartite energy beings who embed themselves in six humans, and...

Jed

January 24, 2014
Filed under: Commonplace Book, Polyamory, Queer, Relationships, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction
0 Comments

The romantic rogue

Any of you know when/where/how we started romanticizing rogues and other villains? There's this thread in at least the European...

Jed

January 20, 2014
Filed under: Folklore
2 Comments

More from _Happy All the Time_

Still enjoying Laurie Colwin's 1978 novel Happy All the Time. Here are a couple more bits worth snipping for my...

Jed

January 20, 2014
Filed under: Books, Commonplace Book, Humor
0 Comments

Conversational about kissing?

I've been doing some sorting and organizing and winnowing of books lately, and came across a book that I think...

Jed

January 19, 2014
Filed under: Books, Commonplace Book
0 Comments

Border searches still legal

A US judge has ruled (in agreement with various other court decisions and administrative rules) that it's still OK to...

Jed

January 13, 2014
Filed under: Freedom of Speech, Law, Privacy
0 Comments

Too-ticky on adventures and heroes

“Quite, quite,” she thought with a little sigh. “It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved....

Jed

January 12, 2014
Filed under: Commonplace Book
0 Comments
Previous 1 … 70 71 72 73 74 … 436 Next

Latest Comments

  • Jed on Do y’all leave JavaScript enabled?
  • Jed on How to schedule a Mac file to open at a particular time
  • Trying to install the Ace plugin for Sigil – Lorem Ipsum on Yet another attempt to install a command-line tool
  • Rudahevz on How to schedule a Mac file to open at a particular time
  • Paul Wieland on launchctl, scheduling shell scripts on macOS, and Full Disk Access
  • Day on Worry, hope, and jinxing things
  • Donations, 2025 – Lorem Ipsum on Recommendations about political donations in the US
  • Donations, 2025 – Lorem Ipsum on Donations 2021

Recent Posts

  • Trying to install the Ace plugin for Sigil March 19, 2026
  • Queerness in Hemingway’s short fiction March 15, 2026
  • Favorite books I read in 2025 January 2, 2026
  • Favorites movies seen in 2025 January 2, 2026
  • Donations, 2025 December 29, 2025
  • On SFWA’s generative-AI survey December 27, 2025

Categories

About This Blog

This is my personal blog. The views expressed on these pages are mine alone and not those of my employer.

Material by Jed copyright © various years from 1986 through 2026 by Jed Hartman

(except as otherwise indicated).

Site design by Clockpunk Studios.