Consideration of Works Past: Dangerous Visions
I was never the audience for Harlan Ellison’s Dangerous Visions. (Picture from here.) DV came out in 1967. I was fifteen. I read it but
Tag: Steven Popkes
State of the Farm: June, 2024
We managed to get pretty much everything planted by the end of Memorial Day weekend. This is, more or less, the traditional planting time up
The Language of Artificial Intelligence
I find the AI discussions at best distracting and at worst irritating. I mean this down to even referring to it as AI. This is
Cheese Ends, 20240519
I’ve been in a cranky mood the last couple of weeks. Health issues have been rearing their ugly heads and the world hasn’t been particularly
State of the Farm: May, 2024
Now that it’s May, we can attempt to start work on our garden without a high expectation of weather damage. Of course, that’s a hope.
The Transcendental Eclipse
Like much of the country, I spent Monday afternoon staring at the sun. We have a cabin in northeast Vermont. Up there it’s referred to
Arts and Crafts V: Two Funeral Urns
About twenty years ago my parents died. First my father, after being treated for prostate cancer. Then, my mother, from a stroke. Through a strange
State of the Farm, March 2024
I like this time of the year. We’re just starting to pull together what we’ll be doing this year. We’ve been going over seed catalogs
Teeth
I decided to talk about teeth today for purely personal reasons. (Picture from here.) Teeth are a structure unique to vertebrates. There are similar feeding
End of Life
We have a small dog in the family, a shih tzu that we adopted as a rescue about thirteen years ago. This coming April, Penny
Arisia: Graphic Novels of Prose Works
I’m on the Arisia panel: Beyond Classics Illustrated—Comic Book Adaptations of Prose Works. (Picture from here.) Now, I would prefer that this be Graphic Novel
Fossil Fuels: Price at the Pump
I’ve been thinking about how we’re going to get shut of fossil fuels. (Picture from here.) Oh, yeah. Why? We have an increasing carbon dioxide
Cheese Ends, 2023/12/04
We can’t talk about anything in science and technology without talking about the second Starship launch. (Picture from here.) I found this one much more