If you want to knit a sweater to give to your beloved by Christmas, then you should start very soon. But beware The Sweater Curse! Also, last night I was watching an early Good Eats, …
Helping Zack move occasioned me wishing we were all Anarresti from Le Guin's The Dispossessed so moving would be easier. This applies to me as well, as I have moved four times in the past …
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.
