The other day I did a curbside pickup of some lab glassware—as one does during pandemics—and the guy threw a Sudoku book in the box. He probably thought he was being nice, or maybe he just had a lot of stock and wanted to get it off his ...
I’m starting with a picture of Arlee I took while we were walking earlier this week. Largely because it’s a cool picture, but also in no small part because I know that putting a picture at the top of the post means my banner headshot won...
sanity matrix
Friday Five was a custom at a previous blogging locale where one would share five usually unrelated thoughts, none of which ever got developed much beyond a couple sentences or maybe a paragraph. Gonna give it a shot here.
Like so many...
I thought the right thing to do was to let him pull the new vanity up the stairs by yanking on the dolly, while I stayed below to push and steady from beneath. If something went wrong, I didn’t want him ten steps up and stuck between the 100-po...
Right up front: Neal Stephenson is my favorite author, and Cryptonomicon is my favorite book. Yet I remain objective about his body of work and its flaws, and in particular, I’m not afraid to call out that Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, his most rece...
Don’t tell me not to worry.
Don’t tell me not to worry about my 79-year-old father with chronic lung disease.
Don’t tell me not to worry about my kids missing a quarter (semester? more?) of classroom instruction.
Don’t tell me...
(video clip) I couldn’t have known while watching it live that this bat drop, recorded at Strikes a few weeks ago, might have been the last one I’d see. Preparations for baseball tryouts next week had been proceeding apace for almost ten...
On the face of it, it was cathartic to spend several hours yesterday dismantling ~10 years of Lego creations to box up for donation. Entropy had already taken its ruinous toll on the largest structures, leaving a lot of mid-sized substructures that ...
I’m hard at work on an email subcription thingy for this blog. I can reliably be counted on to spend a ton of time on the infrastructure of a thing before I actually use the thing. Examples include pedalboards I’ve built, offices I&rsquo...
Today’s the day! My band, Tiny Bit of Giant’s Blood, has released our first full-length album, Gigantosaur. We’ve been working hard for months on this one, and it’s a relief to finally have it out there for people to get into...
