A resident of Los Angeles records his experiences learning to live carfree. Hurray! I take BART to and from work (occasionally Muni trolleys for variety). I almost never use my car. Leonard and I could …
At least one reader disagreed with my piece about Enterprise, arguing that Enterprise simply is not canon. One explanation, which does make a kind of sense: this is the timeline as changed after Zefram Cochrane …
Bam! "Enterprise" doesn't have a gimmick. It has a premise, an interesting question to answer: How did humanity go from the bottom to the top of the galactic totem pole?....isolated low points can't mar this …
The new head of tech is concentrating on the important things.
I'm getting published in Salon. Later tonight my State-of-the-Trek piece on Star Trek Enterprise will go up in the Arts and Entertainment section. I saw it in pre-publication form, panicked and thought it was awful, …
Trying to write. Time will tell whether weblogging has strengthened or weakened my essaying skills.
Yay! My friend Angel is here and we're spending the weekend together. She got to meet many of my friends last night at a small party. I was urged to save for posterity (here) the …
Idea: Recipe Party. (Discovered while idly googling "party recipe.") Obvious implementation: Everyone brings several copies of a favorite recipe, and if possible the finished product. Amusing implementation: you must pretend to be a recipe for …
"Organize" means The Container Store more than it does "Joe Hill." "Organise" doesn't mean anything at all.
High culture, low culture, bacterial cultures, we've got 'em all! Lynn Harris writes about vulvodynia, women's genital pain, in Salon (free day pass or subscription required): "...16 percent of women will experience chronic vulvar pain, …
