Today at work, I found that even my software documentation had political messaging featured front and center. I retreat to my ivory tower.
Now is a time to study, to work, to write... ...to pray.
Yesterday, I didn't post my blog to social media. Today, I don't think I will …
read moreOn my morning walk I see the replacing of "WEAR A MASK" signs/banners with new content. Narratives are swapped like pairs of sneakers.
Talk of "COVID-19" is rapidly replaced by other impending matters—in Sacramento, California with looting and rioting nearby by suburb (though relatively peaceful, compared with other …
read moreThere is escalating civil unrest across many cities in America today. Cities—as have been mentioned on this blog—are sites where the intoxication of words and the influence of mass media are strongest. Cities are where people are free to live in abstractions, not answering to the challenges (and …
read moreOver the past decade or so with the rise of big tech and social media, we're seeing arbitrary standard being put into place about what we can and cannot say. I will not belabor the point of tech censorship, but instead I will focus on how groups in power are …
read moreCivil unrest escalates in the United States. In many quiet corners of the country, no change is visible. But in other areas—particularly those with large numbers of urban poor people—things are looking increasingly bad.
COVID-19 is still in the news, but it is more and more often backgrounded …
read moreIn today's blog post, I'm just going to ramble loosely around the theme of "abstractions and reality". Gotta keep up momentum writing stuff, even if some pieces are much better than others...
Today SpaceX didn't get to launch a manned spacecraft into orbit because the …
read moreIn the season of COVID-19, many people are struggling with "keeping occupied" or fighting boredom.
Taking a look back at bygone eras in faraway lands, we can study activities that people spent a lot of time on for some guidance on how to handle these difficult times.
In short, I …
read moreToday I spent some time shuffling around items to prepare for the summer heat. Arrangements of stuff that may be comfortable in cooler times may be unpleasant in hotter times. Adjusting stuff with changing seasons venerable behavior with a history older than air conditioning.
Life on earth often …
read moreThis is a "long weekend" for many Americans as Memorial Day, which is observed on the last Monday of the month of May. There will be fewer picnics and barbecues this year as policies in response to COVID-19 are still in place. Law abiding citizens have still not recieved "the …
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