Rain Rain Rain
This is the magical time of the year when #SFBay imitates #Ireland: Everything’s green, damp & smells like socks
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Cool Jungles in Which Blurs Pursued Blurs
Reread #Vollmann’s Whores for Gloria: In the windowpanes of bars all around the blue neon Budweiser signs, reflections made cool jungles in which blurs pursued blurs. Remembered reading this with sadly gone #IainBanks in...
Toyota Vexes Me and I Shall Have It
Changed car battery in Corolla… and then got locked out by an RFID engine immobilizer and previously unknown alarm system becoming activated after 6 years of stealth. Spent basically half a day figuring out...
Terminal Beaches
One thing I rarely see addressed even in the most pedestrian near-future novels will be the sad, extreme lack of nice sandy beaches in our immediate future. Even before the global sea level rise,...
Convergent Evolution
First suspected Ebola case dies in quarantine in Nigeria after collapsing in the Lagos *International* Airport. On the bright side, as is common with many highly lethal crowd diseases, this strain of Ebola seems...
Headache Time
So Brenna has started trying to count up as high as she can go and progressed from a couple of weeks ago naming “one hundred… two hundred” etc to variations on a thousand and...
Magic Water + Magic Soylent = Superpowered Nerds
Finally a way to create an army of superpowered nerds: John Ellis Magic Water +
Sublime Emergencies
On call last night in ED (A&E for non-US readers!). People wonder how US healthcare costs can be so ridiculously high wrt OECD averages, yet the average health outcomes of the population can be...
Blood Moon Over Marin
Upon arrival they were met by a 16-year-old male, covered in blood, who refused to let them in, resisting their efforts to open the gate with “superhuman strength” and later becoming combative … the...
Ow My Vaccinated Balls
Ow! My balls! The Stupidity! “You have 100 million viruses sprayed up the nose, along with other things like MSG (monosodium glutamate) and sugar, which causes inflammation … Someone who gets vaccinated could say,...