"Wild-eyed pistol wavers, who ain't afraid to die"Me, watching cars try to drive up the small hill outside my office window at home.
Getting back into writingI haven't written anything in years, now. Of course, I've written things — I'm writing right now — but I haven't written anything seriously concerning my various writing projects in years, not even notes. I've had things going on in my head, but I j...See More »
2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification”https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/
Christians Explain Why Atheists Are Bullies Apropos of nothing. https://www.theonion.com/christians-explain-why-atheists-are-bullies-1851111481
Happy Monday, SWeepers!This week is dress rehearsal for getting back to normal for me. Next week is a three-day weekend, after which the students are back and it's five days a week at the grindstone until the end of May. I'm feeling inexplicably hopeful this morning for...See More »
This Was a Terrible Year, and Also Maybe the Best One Yet for Humanity Some good news in the world. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/30/opinion/2023-humanity-poverty-growth.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Kk0.S9xd.5KfH0Q6GO_V1&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share
There's a better English alphabethttps://youtu.be/D66LrlotvCA?si=TIrY2JkxKS7OibEa https://www.shavian.info/shavian_fonts/
Eggnog Project This is the sort of thing that used to appear a lot on the early Web back in the '90s, these sorts of random projects that just brought so much joy because of their random wackiness. https://eggnogproject.com/
The Dodo Bird: What ACTUALLY HappenedHuh. I thought dodos had lived in New Zealand. My bad. https://youtu.be/8Npavzk_PBA?si=p1Y3tQOiFLY5PLA2
Have any of you seen any geologists or whomeverspeculating about what the Great Lakes will look like in, say, 10,000 years?
Hey, folks!The person posting photos of model Lauren Alexis blocked me when I asked if he (probably a he) was actually Lauren Alexis — because, oddly, I couldn't find any of those photos online anywhere, but it was clearly Lauren Alexis. I mean, just so you...See More »