2023-03-19: The eternal, rhythmic challenge of falling out of routine, recognizing that, and then falling back …
2023-03-14: If these are the guardrails AI requires, we’re totally screwed.
2023-03-04: Taking four months off from writing Lightplay was a necessity—newborns take up all your time!—but it …
2023-03-03: “Email workflow.” You say those two words and you’ve already bored 99% of people. …
2023-02-25: I finally put up my essay “Night/Light” up on my website. (It went out in Lightplay last …
2023-02-25: Taking four months off from writing Lightplay was a necessity—newborns take up all your time!—but it …
2023-02-25: This disaster where a Koch daughter bought lit world power through founding+bankrolling Catapult, …
2023-02-18: Slugging is the new goblin mode
2023-02-17: Little-known fact: orange wine is just bad rosé
2023-02-04: A Chinese balloon! Oh nooooaauuwwrr! They are spying on us with their evil-wrought balloon!
2023-01-30: bought a dozen pencils at the bookstore - came home and sharpened them - now my engineering people …
2023-01-28: Struggling to get hooked on the next book I want to read — then, in bath, suddenly engrossed — …
2023-01-27: My dad just told me the rent on his first place out in the country after leaving LA, at the end of …
2023-01-19: I’m once again thinking of this haiku by Taneda Santōka: 141 busy pulling away at paddy weeds— …
2023-01-17: Sometimes the good feelings curdle. Then it’s time for solitude, and for straining emotion through …
2022-12-21: Reading that no one knows who exploded sections of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 undersea pipelines, I …
2022-12-20: I’m sorry to report that over on the bird site the …
2022-12-15: I’m sorry but scientists have now found “space hurricanes” that are “Over …
2022-12-15: Another capsicin observation: there is a specific, peculiar sensation in your mouth when it is …
2022-12-15: Samin Nosrat talks about “layering fat” in a dish, for instance by adding goat cheese to …
2022-12-12: Today’s announcement that California scientists finally achieved net-positive nuclear fusion …
2022-12-12: In this article about a Central Valley police chief’s breathtaking scheme to get rid of the …
2022-12-10: This War on Cars episode, “Muscle Car City,” explains something I have definitely observed around …
2022-12-09: I am a pathetic social media addict; the only solution I have found is to never log in anywhere. So …
2022-12-09: Was so much enjoying the Jeff Parker ETA IVtet’s Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, that I …
2022-12-09: A poem: A friend sent this over, after a conversation about Stevens. I love the opening line, …
2022-12-09: A poem: – Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (tr. Ursula K. Le Guin) How much we love to classify, to tease …
2022-12-09: A passage: – Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed I’m currently profiling Jean Kayira, who …
2022-12-09: In a clumsy attempt to get more caffeine into myself, I have begun drinking a cup of tea between my …
2022-12-08: My obsession with trying new software continues. The thrill of a new interface. The promise that it …
2022-12-08: 12:27am. In the kitchen, the cat carefully opens a cabinet drawer. Stands there, head inside. …
2022-11-20: For me, who just got my first smart watch, the killer feature is—unexpectedly—the moon phase …
2022-11-08: Pumpkin, shadow, prism.
2022-11-08: A few days ago, in the early morning, as I held my newborn son, I happened to look out the window to …
2022-10-31: The representative aspect of fiction is entirely valid, but there’s still the transgressive …
2022-10-30: Quit Twitter. While logging out I whispered, “Thank you.” It no longer sparked joy.
2022-10-30: AI v. Mortality Should you possess as your first name a goldilocks name, not ubiquitous yet not entirely obscure, …
2022-10-29: Gotta admit, I am curious how 10x my content production.
2022-10-26: This is what I mean when I say I miss smoking cigarettes.
2022-10-26: I will never understand why album art is almost impossible to see up close in Apple Music / Spotify. …
2022-10-21: Say the horse rapture actually happens. Seems inevitable we’ll pin manes and tails on cows and call …
2022-10-18: When have the Republicans ever fielded so many compelling candidates?
2022-10-17: 10-year anniversary of finding this impromptu shopping list. ✅ bank ✅ lettuce ✅ condoms
2022-10-17: Things looking dicey for E-David
2022-10-16: Acne Elf: My chosen family aren’t ‘Orcs.’ We call ourselves ‘Orucs.’ Pretty Elf: I am going to kill …
2022-10-16: “The Creation of Man(nequin)”
2022-10-14: SPOOKY SEASON
2022-10-14: Two weeks ago I found Dropbox had downloaded 350GB of shared team projects to my comp. Today, found …
2022-10-13: This is a real horse-mill definition for what should be an exciting word.
2022-10-12: Twitter—a haiku contest in a middle school. ‘No, mine is better!’
2022-10-11: Life with electric kettle. Learning its sounds. The cymballine tremble as it gets going. A long …
2022-10-11: Today, I “went for a run” but really jogged—first time since injuring my calf weeks ago. While out, …
2022-10-10: After a few weeks of posting daily, I find myself suddenly skeptical of microblogging. Who is this …
2022-10-07: “The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning …
2022-10-06: Every time I get into some new piece of software, I get curious about who is heading up building it. …
2022-10-04: “Hobbits didn’t exist in prehistoric Middle Earth. No. Instead...let’s see, useless nomads with …
2022-10-02: “family time”
2022-10-01: In my timid return to the blasted space that is Twitter, I keep being struck by how much the …
2022-09-30: Just re-read @davekarpf’s great takedown of the big Bezos clock, with its “3.65 million unique …
2022-09-30: I'm finally closing in on a personal salsa verde recipe. Will write about it in Lightplay, but two …
2022-09-30: Being a vacuum really sucks. No, I am NOT being a joker. Sorry if you thought I was. I’m just …
2022-09-27: I’m going through a tiny book / zine phase: —saddle stitched —fewer than 30 pages —lovingly handmade …
2022-09-26: When my grandfather visited in 2000, he set up a space heater to keep the bathroom at 90 degrees. …
2022-09-25: Frolicking in the surf, getting pushed around, diving under waves, water up nose, the big susurrus, …
2022-09-24: “Help! I’m a bunny, you see. And I’m about to be inserted into a giant toaster. Kind friend, is …
2022-09-23: A few days after I delivered a ~15-minute diatribe about how astrology is BS—useful BS—but only as …
2022-09-23: Planners love talking about how new freeways and wider freeways “induce demand” but what’s the term …
2022-09-22: Love to hear rumblings of something, think it sounds like some BS, and then read an exhaustive and …
2022-09-21: Watching The Rings of Power, I keep wishing someone would give the show the Wizard People, Dear …
2022-09-20: A tack-sharp photo of my dashboard. To the license plate reading “DDDADDY”—you may have won this …
2022-09-20: “Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolf?” asks last remaining sheep in family targeted by notorious lupine …
2022-09-19: As a writer both half-seduced by and totally unable to see how to actualize the “Thousand True Fans” …
2022-09-18: Sure everyone, including me, a billionaire, would be safer in a society where all prospered. But …
2022-09-18: I’m thinking back to that moment a month ago: wife in labor, I’m driving to the hospital …
2022-09-17: Resisting Development, an Ambiguous Virtue Our society’s got problems, and they’re all the same problem: people who already have things are …
2022-09-17: “howdy pardner”
2022-09-17: An enchanted doorway beckons.
2022-09-16: Orc Fashion Icon Steals Heart We’ve been watching The Rings of Power, the new, half-billion-dollar Lord of the Rings spinoff that …
2022-09-15: There's a First Post for Everything For no good reason beyond proclivity, I can’t help myself but try out new software all the time. I’m …