One-and-a-Half Decades

On this day fifteen years ago, in 2011, I started this blog and published the first Logos con Carne post. Since then, I've published 2,118,480 words comprising 1,503 posts (plus 42 pages) — an average of 1,375 words per post. The anniversary means it's time for the biannual extract and analysis … Continue reading →

Friday Notes (Jul 3, 2026)

After taking May and most of June off from blogging (in fact, from anything involving sitting at my computer), I tried to jump-start myself by putting out five posts at the end of June. The more eagle-eyed readers may have noticed I put out only three. I intended a Monday post about movies I've … Continue reading →

New and Old Stuff

In the last two Friday Notes posts [one and two] I mentioned spending March and April in getting stuff done mode (a change from my lazy retirement) but, other than a picture of my new couch, haven't written much about it. In part because I keep boundaries between online and Real Life™; in part … Continue reading →

Neal Asher

Neal Asher is one-third of the British triumvirate of science fiction authors who write stories that take place in a post-abundance distant future. The other two are Iain M. Banks and Alastair Reynolds. While they aren't collaborators, their future realities have notable similarities. I generally … Continue reading →

Friday Notes (Jun 26, 2026)

Apparently, I've been on my own form of spring break. It has been over a month since my last post here (or anywhere). And there was a three-week stretch between previous posts and the single gap-filling Friday Notes post on May 15th. Getting from the last paragraph to this one took over an hour … Continue reading →