Resolutions on Writing
Around 2013, I decided to try a few therapeutic writing exercises, and got hooked. Since then I’ve written a lot for fun, though almost entirely pseudonymously. I’ve written poems off and on at Hello…
Personal Media Summary- September 2016
Random reads from September: * As a sign of the times, some Democrats are now nostalgic1 for Romney. * In the speculative archaeology section, links2 between China and ancient Egypt (specifically,…
Monthly Recap: September 2016
Finally made a New York trip after six years (!) and met up with a bunch of old friends (some of them after 15 years) -- and Tara went to her first zoo. Bunch of other miscellany: switched to a more…
Personal Media Summary: August 2016
Random reads from August: * I try to start with a “blast from the past”, so here1 is * A rambling but heartfelt account2 of the paradoxes of ‘Brexit’ * Someone discusses their experience of trying…
Monthly recap: August 2016
The big highlight of this month, and something that consumed most of our time, was moving into a new place. There are still a lot of little things here and there to take care of (random plumbing probl…
Personal Media Summary: July 2016
Random general reads from July: * A “scientific” take on the basic shapes of stories1 (no kidding) * Behind every romantic myth is a bunch of B.S., which, this author claims, is the case with _Bush…
Monthly recap: July 2016
Interesting stuff the last month: * Long weekend staycation in San Francisco (went to some place in Tiburon for lunch, and checked out the new stuff at the recently opened SF MoMA) * Hung out with…
Personal Media Summary: June 2016
Random general reads from June: * ”The Cave of Forgotten Dreams” introduced1 me to millennia old human-painted caves, but Bruniquel Cave has been dated2 to an astonishing 176,500 years! * The annua…
Monthly Recap: June 2016
The major event of June was our trip to Puerta Vallarta, Mexico around the beginning of the month. Mostly lazed around, Tara had her first pizza (a Marinara veggie), and we had some fun in the pool.…
The world after Brexit
I think the real lesson ought to be to stop trusting your instinctive feelings about what can and cannot (or should and should not) happen, and start taking polls seriously. A corollary would be to c…
Personal Media Summary: May 2016
Random selection of interesting reads from May … * To start with a good old pessimistic note, Evgeny Morozov discusses1 “a new age of feudalism”. All these subsidies, though, make it hard to unders…
On World Building
Something I came across (and which would be lost, but for the Wayback Machine): Worldbuilding is dull. Worldbuilding literalises the urge to invent. Worldbuilding gives an unneccessary permission for…