How the years go by
It occurred to me Sunday evening that it's been fifteen years (plus a week) since the end of my Wanderjahr....
Syncing Notes in Mountain Lion
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a plaintive blog post about iCloud and the problems I was having with it,...
Adults lip-sync kids’ stories
Start by giving two or three kids a scenario to play out. Record them for about two minutes. Then create...
Day of unexpectedness
As this was the first weekend in a while when I wasn't traveling, I figured it would be a good...
Changing OS X keyboard shortcuts when app name has changed
This entry describes a somewhat techie solution to an unusual problem that most people are unlikely to have. The main...
Marcy’s birthday
My mother would've been 69 years old today. So far I've been mostly okay, but with a couple of gusts...
Sir, I exist!
I was thinking about this poem the other day, in the context of certain kinds of human interactions. No time...
Mary Anne on graceful exits
Good stuff from Mary Anne about how to leave room for a polite no when flirting or otherwise expressing interest...
New Cat Faber album!
Cat Faber (formerly of Echo's Children) has released her first album in some time: The King's Lute. If you follow...
Niels Bohr on coincidence in movies
Mary Anne and I were discussing coincidence in story plots, and this quote came to mind but I couldn't quite...
That kind of week
The kind of week where I started to write a blog entry last night about this week's technofailure, and after...
Stepping down, one step at a time
On July 23, I sent my last SH rejection. On August 1, I read my last SH submission. On August...