Spam subject lines are sometimes very straightforward. You want sex and money, don't you? Free cash, free sex. Oh, and you can be thinner. Sometimes I see a Lose four inches in one week! right …
Currently reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, an alternate-history time-travel literary detective story. Reminds me of Connie Willis in that you see academics doing time travel in modern England, only it's not as annoying. …
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 …
