Sandman

June 14, 2008

I’ve lost two friends to cancer in the last week.The first was Erick Wujcik, and the second my companion of 17 years, the cat named Sandman.Though his black-and-white coloration might make it seem obvious, he wasn’t named after the Neil Gaiman character. He acquired the name Sandman because, as a kitten, he did very little […]

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Erick

June 12, 2008

My friend, Erick Wujcik, died on Saturday of pancreatic cancer. He had just turned 57. His companion of nearly thirty years, the wonderful Kate Kozora, was by his side. I think I can say without fear of contradiction that he was a creative genius. He was the sort of person who has about a dozen […]

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And Before I Leave . . .

June 8, 2008

I hope everyone had a great Tuen Ng Festival!

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To the Mountains!

June 8, 2008

I’m back to the mountains for Taos Toolbox. I don’t know how much free time I’ll have, or what the Internet connections will be like, but I’ll check in when I can.

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Al-Qaeda Wants a Posse

June 8, 2008

Got a plan to save the world? Check out the American Security Initiative, which is soliciting your ideas— well, your business plans— to make a safer world. (For business, I imagine.)” . . . America’s first business plan competition devoted to our nation’s security, seeks to fill this gap in funding and assure the long […]

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Ms Rowling Speaks

June 8, 2008

JK Rowling has given an utterly splendid commencement address at Harvard.It’s twenty minutes long, but it’s worth listening to.

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Apocalypse Mail

June 6, 2008

Devout Internet geeks rejoice! Now you can send email even after you’ve been raptured! Thanks to youvebeenleftbehind.com, your nonbeliever friends can be sent a personalized email six days after the Rapture urging them to reconsider their pagan ways and join Christ’s army for the seven years of the Tribulation. For $40 per year, you can […]

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Lancashire Aeronautics and Space Administration

June 3, 2008

So after knocking off work late last night, I poured myself a well-deserved margarita and started flipping channels on the satellite dish to see if there was anything on worth watching. (Most worthwhile programs are on after midnight, I’ve found.)So I clicked onto the Beeb, and there was Top Gear, which is an English program […]

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Mystery Plane

June 2, 2008

Instead of sitting around in Baltimore waiting for the con to start, I headed out on Friday to lovely Chantilly, VA, to see the Steven F. Utvar-Hazy Center. Which will probably ring no bells with you, until I state that it’s part of the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. In fact it’s the part that […]

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Mr. Diddley

June 2, 2008

Bo Diddley, the big, goofy-looking bow-legged guy with the homemade guitar, has died.He made the first guitar tremolo control out of auto parts and a clockwork spring, and he popularized the Bo Diddley beat that has been used by Buddy Holley, Elvis, The Who, Springsteen, and the White Stripes among many others. His guitar technique […]

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