I’m thrilled to say after a lifetime of this ceaseless, unyielding panic and fear of mortality and death, that started as soon as I could read, and the words hung over my bed, “Now I lay me down to (more…)
Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden (written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli’d his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin’d: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni’d Promiscuous (more…)
NEWSLETTER #0012 – “What do you do and how do you know when you’re finished?”
Star Wars Model video is pretty rare and awesome, and I don’t even really care about the franchise vs the filmmaking of the time. Also the new videoconferencing tech is unreal. Also, this is HEAVY (more…)
YOU WILL GO TO THE MOON, or using Libration / Lagrangian Points for Lunar Orbit Colonisation
I just stumbled across this… this is so cool. But, it starts to get WAY cooler… My alma mater CU-Boulder designed plans and schematics for a space station: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19890010809/downloads/19890010809.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19890010809 L1 (more…)
A quick thought on The Expanse vs Battlestar Galactica.
If you like physics… that alone is enough to start The Expanse. I’m in my little pandemic bubble and echo chamber, so I’ve been watching this show with jaw-dropped amazement, and isolated such that I (more…)
A defense of the inevitability of Equalitarianism: on a road with no map since the year of our Lord, 1215; *OR* an essay about isms.
So when I think about equalitarianism as a political doctrine, I typically immediately think about three things. This video: Explanation of who is killing who: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/ Second, (more…)
27 Foods to never purchase again, or “How to become healthier in a super simple way”
Far more surprises that I might have expected. This is actually worth reading… it talks about why some “health” foods are a scam, how gluten is REALLY bad for you if you aren’t celiac, and just how (more…)
Digital Inheritance, & Sentiment Analysis to build biographer’s depictions of a dead soul.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/09/300614977/the-new-age-leaving-behind-everything-or-nothing-at-all This talks about your “digital inheritance”, how people used to burn letters to (more…)
An Ode to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy of my Youth; A Love note to Douglas Adams
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; A Love note to Douglas Adams (dates not precise) About 1984, my father bought an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive and 3.5 floppy, with a Hayes 1200 baud modem. Â It was (more…)
A meaning for one life; thank Fulghum.
If all that is too hippy, too arcane….. self awareness of people ingesting my words quite a bit after my last breath, the earnest humanistic love trumping self shame from sounding so giddily loving and portently 3rd person, me.. a voyuer watching your reaction while long past into shadow….