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A few years ago, I flagged a fun phenomenon afflicting WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark. You see, as a White superstar in a league with many Black players, racist idiots really wanted Caitlin Clark to be racist. And when she declined, they...
RMIT Building 1 (left) where we first worked together – via Wikimedia Commons. Lorraine Bridger passed away recently. Most people won’t know who she is but Lorraine was special to me. She got me started as research administrator. I’m...
They do not kill. It is as bad for business as the farmer who slaughters his milk-cow, and any thief with a reputation for leaving behind bodies and blood will find it hard to book gigs. The burglar's share of party XP for monsters slain...
My daughter has always been the most innocent, sweet, loving, and kind person I have ever known. It brings a small tear to my eye even as I write that now. Like every proud father, I have enjoyed every moment of watching her grow into...
This is summer! I love home grown tomatoes!
The past two months have been quite busy. Summer reading at the library was in full swing which coincided with the mid-year grant writing season. So, my work life has been a mixture of helping with programming with lots of grant writing...
Bookshelves in Casa d'Areny-Plandolit Museum, Andorra: Thanks to Eric Thomson for the photographs.
another year of artfight is downand this year i have a blog to write about itthis year had a cool gimmick too, there were three teams fighting each otherartfight is pretty simple, you "attack" characters of the other team for points and...
One of the bragging points of digital information is that it’s supposed to be possible to convert it from one format to another. Actually doing the conversion is often where theory runs headlong into practice and gets a concussion....
AH-- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I've written a couple thousand words today and yesterday which, don't get me wrong, were really fun write-ups but if I'm going to commit to the trials and tribulations I have lined up for me (more writing, in...
I felt a lot of shame today. Shame about what I am. Who I am. What I like. Who I like. Shame for being me. Shame for being free. When I feel shame I also get paranoid. Today I’ve been paranoid. Paranoid that people are listening in....
Cicero, On Old Age 5.15 (tr. William Armistead Falconer): And, indeed, when I reflect on this subject I find four reasons why old age appears to be unhappy: first, that it withdraws us from active pursuits; second, that it makes the body...
Had a nice week off from the blogging treadmill. It was a bit weird at first as one of the motivations for starting this blog up during my CFS recovery was to give me some kind of identity, a thing that I do that counts for something...
I’m sad today. I’m mad I’m sad. I don’t want to be sad. But, alas, I am. I have some things I’ve been putting off; I guess self care would be confronting them. Laundry, cleaning. Hard conversations. Boundary setting; enforcing. Hard...
Fantastic documentary on Enki Bilal from Standart. Finally got around to reading Ahmed Khaled Tawfik's 2008 novel UTOPIA (in its original Arabic), which is just fantastic and in 2026 eerily close to reality. Started watching SILO which I...