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The future is confusing

More a Twitter- than blog-worthy story, but I couldn’t get it down to 140, so here’s the long version. I’m on the bus, on my way home, and a guy gets on. He’s mid-20s, tie, no jacket, and he starts asking the driver and many passengers if they know where business x is. The consensus […]

I [heart] @DellCares

Some months ago, my laptop monitor developed a one-pixel-wide vertical line. It was intermittent for a little while, and I did a little web research to find out how to get to the connectors and reseat them. With the intermittent nature of the problem I was unable to tell if the reseating made any difference, […]

Blackout Review

Blackout, Willis. Yes. In the acknowledgments (I think it is), Willis mentions that this story grew from one book into two, and I think I saw quotes from her talking about how there was a lot of material that she had to discard. I mention this because I frequently got the notion while reading Blackout […]

Long for This World Review

Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality, Weiner. Non-fiction. Review is based on a publisher-provided pre-pub proof. This is a survey of the state of the science of life extension, with particular focus on the work of Aubrey de Gray, an optimistic (relatively) young man who believes that aging (more specifically, the problems […]

I Want a T-Shirt

A brave declaration by Bill Corbett led me to a history of the team’s name led me to a charmingly named meat conglomerate. Are you ready to be a ham fighter?

Tiny Booklist: News Literacy

A list on understanding what makes the news and what doesn’t: The essay on how news stories are written to be balanced, even if they can’t be, in Sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs: a low culture manifesto by Chuck Klosterman It’s not news, it’s fark: how mass media tries to pass off crap as news […]