The Author Is Not as Dead as Claimed - Los Angeles Review of Books — Didn’t really plan to take a time machine back to my grad school days, but here I am.
The Author Is Not as Dead as Claimed - Los Angeles Review of Books — Didn’t really plan to take a time machine back to my grad school days, but here I am.
How MySpace taught people to code (or at least to find and paste code snippets, which is also an important skill)
Kyoto looks like a movie set – maybe is a movie set.
Just went outside for about five minutes and feel that I need to jump into an ice bath and get IV rehydration.
New kind of spam showing up over the past few months: “Confirm to unsubscribe from these emails.” Kinda clever.
I am surprised and pleased to say that the beta of Mojave is working great for me. It connects to wifi more quickly, Bluetooth is more stable, and (unless I’m mistaken) battery life on my MacBook is better.
Some enterprising company needs to start making Wisdom of SIlenus onesies and bibs for the children of people like this guy.
Via Panel Pulp. A whole bunch of people in this country could use a heart stimulant right about now, let me tell you.
Last year I read Dave Hutchinson’s Europe in Autumn and loved it, but got sidetracked and am only now getting to Europe at Midnight. It’s riveting. The narrative pace is quick, but the nature of the fictional world is revealed with wonderfully tantalizing slowness.
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It’s interesting to read @dancohen’s post “In Praise of Email” in conjunction with @manton’s post on the web as the social network. Twitter, Facebook, et al. are platforms built on, and also parasitic on, the more extensive and far superior platform called the World Wide Web. But email, while it can be present on the web, is built on and takes full advantage of the amazing technologies that lie beneath the web, the ones that we collectively call the internet. What makes email great, or at least potentially great, as Dan suggests, is its ability to mobilize many of the most powerful resources of the internet itself.
And, as I occasionally remind y’all, I’m writing from micro.blog and hang out only there — I try never to cross the malign and eldritch threshold of twitter dot com
My personal internet presence, like Gallia, est omnis divisa in partes tres:
Now Philip, how ‘bout you bring Grandpa some of that hot cocoa. And Claire, since Grandpa’s hands shake a bit these days, how ‘bout pouring some of that Extra Special Liquid from this here flask into the cocoa. A little more … little more … there. Now we’re cozy!
Yes indeed, young‘uns, times have changed! And believe it or not, when Grandpa started writing his book he still thought that American Christians would prefer democracy to autocracy, and would be willing to learn from these folks from way back when. He knows better now!
The people Grandpa wrote about in his book — well, they would have been puzzled indeed by an American President who mocked democratic governments and praised, celebrated, and bowed before autocrats. They would’ve expected their fellow Christians to denounce such foolishness too.
Why, in those days, hard though it may be for you to credit, thoughtful Christians believed that Christianity and democracy had common enemies, in the form of authoritarian and totalitarian governments, and needed to work together to defeat the enemies of freedom.
Now, children, gather round while Grandpa tells you about those people in his book — they were Christians, really thoughtful Christians, and while they knew that democracy was flawed they also believed that Christianity and democracy could work hand in hand. It’s true!
Another peek
So this arrived today…
