Definitely A Technical Exercise In Academic Philosophy
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. I didn't quite get the shot I wanted here, sad. I've been happy to pick up iPhone photography again,...
Not Even Disdain, But Simply Incomprehension
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. So this past week I finally read C.P. Snow’s “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”, the...
A Belief in Writing Things Down
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. Short one this week, because I’ve a.) finally started work, for real, and need brain space for that b.)...
You Can Take My Em Dashes From My Cold, Dead Hands
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. The Bay Area has such a rich sticker culture! But now I'm realizing... I don't actually know what these...
An Intensively Researched, Finely-Crafted Educational Program Intended To Teach Children Values Like, Say, Curiosity
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. If necessity is the mother of invention, then what is boredom? The midwife? First and most important:...
Basically The First Building Made Primarily Of Reinforced Concrete
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. I’ve spent the past week in Illinois, so this is going to be a lightweight (aka skippable) issue. The...
Index Full Of In-Jokes Which Most Readers Probably Skip Over
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. A spooky stone on the Embarcadero is very San Francisco Hello all, I hope you had a lovely week. I’ve...
You Didn’t Expect a 3000 Word Post Every Week, Did You?
Just a heads up! This will look better on my website. I got to see Gelli Haha live on Thursday, before she gets famous 🥹 Freedom! Alright, I probably...
I Will No Doubt Get Lots Of Productive Work Done
Bowl in the Form of a Llama with Geometric Motifs, c. 600-1000, south coast of Peru or northern Bolivia So the reason for my busyness that I’ve been teasing...
Really, Truly Breathless With Excitement
An illustration from a 1467 manuscript of Hans Talhoffer's fight book, from the always-wonderful Public Domain Review Jujutsu: the future of version control...
An “Old Boys Club” Of Dad Rock
Hooray, my age has continued to creep up on me... (but shoutout to Sherry for a beautiful and delicious cookie cake!). This has been a particularly busy...
Apocalyptic Fervor Gripped The Colonies
"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", Albrecht Dürer Hello from a San Francisco that has suddenly decided that the end of February is the correct time for...
In A Decade We’ll All Be Using “Mog” As A Verb Without Thinking Twice
Language evolves to be useful. A lot of initially-strange phrases make perfect sense because they’re filling an unused niche in the language. This week’s...
Strange Things About London
Travel, like the discipline of anthropology, tends to “make the strange familiar and the familiar strange.” So, just like last time, here’s some strange...
30 Pieces of Advice for 30
"Afternoon tea party" (1891), Mary Cassatt I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott...
Fearsome Flying Machines
At least it's not a sign reading "You Have Been Diverted"... Hello! I write, bleary-eyed, at 7am, having been in some sort of wakefulness for the past four...
Boil, Bake, and You’re Golden
“Americans Baking Bread (Amerikajin pan wo yaku zu)” Some weeks go by and you look back and think... what even happened this week? What did I do with all my...
Subjected to Voir Dire Questioning
This week I did my Civic Duty™️ and reported for jury duty. An oddity about the jury selection process is that the pool of potential jurors — in this case,...
Specification for an Art Exhibit
Hello from a “writer’s retreat” in Ben Lomond! No, not the mountain in the Scottish Highlands made famous by “The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond” (which I can...
I’m A Proud Member of the Roxie
Following on from last week, here’s some of my favorite films, shows, and games from the last year. Film Speed Racer Speed Racer was, by far, my favorite...
