April 18, 2025

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Apr 18 2025

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Here are long-form blog posts I published this week:

• nontheism in one of Steven Peck's short stories

• Star Trek V, the Liahona, and Jacques Ellul's technique

• the upside-down Blue Marble and imagining other worlds

• DuckDuckGo and IP geolocation (with a MapQuest and generative AI tangent)

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• I admit to having peculiar tastes in fiction, but I’m completely serious in my belief that one of the best things Mormon literature has produced is a short story about unicorn-riding knights on Mars.

• There was a Little Free Library just outside tonight’s restaurant, so kiddo’s working through a new book while we wait for food.

• One of the most frustrating experiences I’ve ever had with a journal appears to be coming to a happy conclusion, and that’s not a bad way to start a Monday.

• Not thrilled about the faint burning plastic smell that was coming from the charger for my e-bike’s battery today. (I immediately unplugged it and have reluctantly added replacing it to today’s to-do list).

• Not only did my e-bike’s battery charger short out but the slow leak in the rear tire also turned into a straight up flat soon thereafter. Thanks to the student-run bike workshop on campus, I still got home in time to pick up kiddo from school, but I remain grumpy.

• Am I feeling excited about the Fantastic Four because the new trailer looks good? Or because the idea of Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds doesn’t sound so bad right now?

Here are photos that I published this week (or at least their descriptions):

• One of the perks of building some new content taxonomies for my review posts is that I can get a quick view of whose stuff I’m reading (or listening to) most… and realize just how much of my reading is comics.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on this week:

• 🔗 linkblog: They’re putting A1 in the classrooms.

• 🔗 linkblog: 'My Entire Life Is Political': Trans Fencer Attacked by Conservative Outrage Machine Speaks Out

• 🔗 linkblog: Trump Officials Renew Opposition to Ruling on Maryland Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador

• 🔗 linkblog: ICT class gives thumbs up to new emoji submission to Unicode

• 🔗 linkblog: The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers

• 🔗 linkblog: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin flop is bigger than Katy Perry

Here are my reviews of books and other media I consumed this week:

• 📚 bookblog: Wandering Realities: The Mormonish Short Fiction of Steven L. Peck (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: I Excised All My Anxieties into Cartoon Characters Who Definitely Don't Have Feelings for Each Other (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Her Hugs Are Traps (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: My Peer Group's Smoochy Chart Is Basically Now an Ouroboros (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Anarchie et christianisme (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Lawful Interception (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

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Spencer