Optical Dude: So how’s your vision? Me: I can’t see crap anymore. Optical Dude: Yeah. You are about the age for that. Me: Should I consider progressive lenses? Optical Dude: Yeah. A lot of people like progressive lenses these days. Me: Would … Continue reading
The Road is about a man and a boy. And nothing happens.
A late entry in Gizmodo’s rip off an album cover contest. Continue reading
Farewell to a muse. Continue reading
Nate Silver’s column today was about how the tech industry overwhelmingly supported the Dems in the recent election. Obama won 84% of the vote in San Francisco and almost as much in Silicon Valley and the rest of the Bay … Continue reading
I have become surprisingly intolerant of ads. We cut the cable with Comcast about 5 years ago and all of our TV since then has streamed over the interwebs or arrived on shiny disks in red envelopes. Most of what I … Continue reading
They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could never be put down, it … Continue reading
In 2004, more preschoolers than law enforcement officers were killed by firearms Continue reading
A series of short lectures on religion from my alma mater. Stalin and his gang had found lots of other ways to oppress people that didn’t have any of the fun bits of religion. Or, indeed. opium. Those hilarious people … Continue reading
When TED first popped into the world, you could pick any TED talk at random and it would almost certainly be great. Now it seems like you have to wade through 10 crap ones and 5 mediocre ones to find … Continue reading