So, I’m guessing anyone under 30 can probably skip this one, as you’ll likely know all this already. But for those of us growing up with William Gibson writing about the future, this might be news. It was to me. I’m talking of course, of Hatsune Miku, who I hadn’t known existed until today. If […]
Well, I was gonna write up a whole thing about 9/11 on today, the 21st anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center. But I got busy, so I’ll just leave a few memories here. Things I remember from 9/11 and the days after. I remember the media all repeating that this was “like
#150: It can weigh on the minds of one side, enlighten the mood of another.
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I struggled for almost thirty years to pay off my student loans. I have paid roughly $120,000 on the $25,000 that I initially borrowed. I owe about $12,000 more, and I’ve been making payments regularly throughout the pandemic and so-called “suspension” of student loan payments. And now, since last year I finally made too much
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#149: “Most people I’ve talked to about it think it’s a myth.”
But they might be myth-taken. Read More »
#148: “Some say you’re more than twice that age yourself.”
Don’t worry, he’s not a vampire. Read More »
#147: “Oh, don’t you dare start that Barbarian crap again.”
Not meta. Also, too late. Read More »
#146: “Does that include our mysterious benefactor?” Yagmar asked me.
The plot thickens! Read More »
#145: “A good first step for keeping construction secret is not doing it right next to a highway.”
There are other steps, too. Read More »
Twenty years ago, I started my blog. Back then, it was on Livejournal, which later got moved over to Dreamwidth. And, finally, it got moved here to my own web site. That first entry was me sitting in my apartment in Pittsburg, California, watching the protests in my home town of Portland, 700 miles away,
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