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On Monday, my three oldest1 sons were playing in the master bedroom closet. This mostly involved trying on my wife's shoes, which sit on a shelf beneath all of my hanging clothes. After this had gone on for a while, the nine-year-old...
(Continued from my previous posts on Catacombs, and in particular my last post which described how the 1981 PET version of the game was recently rescued.) The disk copies we have are for the “4040” edition of the game. This is referring...
I have long argued that AI will not hurt the status/prestige of elite colleges. This is because the difficulty and selectivity implicitly act as an IQ filter. Even if AI enables widespread cheating in coursework, admissions can still be...
Almost five years ago, I started converting my southeast Michigan suburban lawn and garden to native plants. My neighbors wondered what I was doing when I planted native plants where an old basketball hoop once stood. And then expanded...
Jennifer Szalai reviews for the NY Times (archived) a new biography of a remarkable man: George Forster is one of the most fascinating figures you have probably never heard of. He was a naturalist, a humanist, an explorer and a...
Thanks for the kind birthday wishes, everybody!
Apologies that time seems to run ahead between these posts. I have only so many hours of comfortable productive sitting time each day, and I tend to spend them actually stitching, drafting/redacting new designs, and working on my books....
This week, I’m a guest on a Retronauts episode about Pac-Man Fever, the 1982 album by Buckner & Garcia in which each track is about a popular arcade game. (Additionally, there is a song about Mouse Trap.) If you listen — and you should!...
Out here in the boonies, many of our neighbors have golf carts that they use for very short trips not on the official roads, like going to visit friends, or hauling their trash cans from their houses at the end of a long driveway to the...
To the left: 1st Denning Area . . . . secluded, but wolves circuit here regularly. To the right: Rendezvous area. Much more “coyote” friendly. Grasshopper, voles, berries galore. Pups can self educate and grow in skill as she comes and...
Look at that, it's a round chapter number for once!
So this morning I had to get up early for a doctors appointment but instead of my alarm I woke up to an incredibly loud IMMINENT THREAT flood warning and so it gave me an excuse to just go back to bed because I couldn’t drive, but then I...
People are constantly asking me for my thoughts on Mark Fisher. Only a slight exaggeration.It actually got a little wearisome and I had to start saying no. But then I seemed to get a second wind. Or maybe I just found easier to comply...
England. Bloody hell!
From time to time I’m prowling through old email archives and when I see something related to, or from, the late Dennis McMillan I’m tossing it into a new DMac file. At minimum, it’ll be fun to round up various of his aliases so they’re...