(Picture from here.) Recently, a friend of mine lamented that he’d fallen into a particular way of writing books. He didn’t like it. He found it inefficient. The conversation left me wondering how I write books—or any fiction, really. I … Continue reading
Up here in Massachusetts, we haven’t had much in the way of winter for the last couple of years. I mean we’ve had winter. There are days of below zero cold. The ground freezes. The heating bill goes up—we’re always … Continue reading
(Picture from here.) Back when I was in college, I worked briefly at the local food co-op. The co-op was the sort of shoestring business you could expect. A mix of volunteers that had different agendas such as the quality … Continue reading
I wrote the following some time back. But I think it’s worth updating and revisiting the subject. DecodeDC had a good episode on the neuroscience behind political advertising before it died. You can still get the podcast ifyou look for … Continue reading
(video of cut trails after the 12/18/2020 snowstorm) I live in New England– Massachusetts, to be precise. We can expect comparatively short summers that usually span from some time in May to some time in September. We’re known for … Continue reading
(Picture from here.) I had a different entry primed for this day but, since it is the first of the year, it seemed to me I’d look at some interesting science that has happened in the last year. I set … Continue reading
(Picture from here.) As I sit here and write this on 12/14/2020, the last few electors in the electoral college are voting. The last few states are Hawaii, California and Oregon– another 66 electoral votes, officially making Biden president-elect. This is … Continue reading
A review of Jackie’s Boy, a post-apocalyptic Huck Finn: Eleven-year-old orphan Michael scrabbles to survive the violent chaos after deliberate plagues killed 99% of the world’s population. He still writes letters to Mom. Jackie, an elephant bioengineered to speak, has … Continue reading
(Picture from here.) I am so tired of being… well, tired. I’m tired of spent hacks trying desperately to hold on to power. Tired of one side being outraged at the other only to find the other side just as outraged. … Continue reading
I was thinking about many different topics for this blog. Some of them were political. Notably about there not being acceptance of voting reality. Or maybe the about Moderna’s new vaccine– or an even more nano-particle vaccine that does exceedingly … Continue reading
