Nothing special--just a few things.

To begin with, this seems to me entirely unexpected: a discussion by Virginia Heffernan, one of my favorite journalists and commentators, of the chip fabs in...

As ever--this is basically just becoming a taxi stand, where links come in to me, and I ship them out to you again.  Well, maybe you find it useful.  All of my intense creative writing is going into...

As ever, just some stuff I've been reading and thinking about.  I'll share more of my own connected thoughts at some point; but for now, I have so many links, I think I should just keep inflicting...

I have been quiet, sorry; I was away this weekend in Nashville, a very fun city, visiting a dear friend and his family.  But I didn't forget about you, not by a long-shot.

This is encouraging...

A busy couple weeks ahead for me, but I'm here for you with the links.

With the recent announcement that the B-52s will stop touring, it’s cool to look at this piece from 2019 about the influences...

Just for your reading pleasure.

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A nice...

Welcome to the weekend!  Well, you've probably been living it already, but I slept waaaay in today, which was good for me; not sure why I did, but I almost slept twelve hours. Amazing.  Otherwise I...

Sorry for my long silence!  I've been busy, just not on here.  I'll see how I feel about doing more of this, but I've been hoarding links, so I'll give you some of them here.  

Maybe we’re not...

I'm listening to the Lessons and Carols service from King's College Cambridge this morning, as I post these. The bleak midwinter is a good time to be reminded of hope, for sure.

Good critique of the...

I've been busy with finals, but really I'm just drilling deep into work I've been putting off for a while. I hope to make that work come to fruition in the new year. In the meantime, a lot of stuff...