Congrats to Adam
Like many a b-schooler, Adam and Jenny are expecting… maybe two. Congrats to the happy couple.
Gibson: Subway paranoia hits Tokyo
William Gibson points to a Tokyo newspaper article about supposed secret tunnels under Tokyo: “AKIRA-inflected secret city beneath Tokyo; retired construction workers whispering about the diamond-cutter required to tunnel existing concrete, when the maps show nothing but soil should have been there…”
Gibson also notes “subway fantasy is a genre unto itself.” Hard not to be [...]
Shaming myself into finishing books
To point 3, I finally made myself finish Small Pieces Loosely Joined. It’s funny to think that I have some prior art for that book, written in 1993, that talks about how the Internet (which for me consisted of Usenet, IRC, and email) has its own semiotics, where words to signify new identities. Eight years [...]
Minor site changes
I’ve added a section of the site that I update with some current reading and listening links. Yes, it’s an Amazon promotion. No, I won’t ever make any money from it. I’m mostly just interested in
sharing what I’m listening to
keeping track (you can click the fleurons under each listing to see past entries)
shaming myself [...]
