The White House animals have a Twitter account. Cloth measuring tapes can be wrong out of the package. Like, vastly wrong. Off by an 1/8″ per inch. Better measure them against a known ruler when you open them up. You can look at the original topo maps of Switzerland! This is fun. I may not …
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What I Learned in 2021 Week 3
If you use a magnetic locator to find your property pins in the woods where someone in the past erected barbed wire fence but now it’s mostly buried…you spend a lot of time digging up barbed wire. Nevertheless, success. Griffin and I found the really important propert pin (!!!ppf!!!) that will define the edge where …
What I learned in 2021 Week 2
Goat rental is both effective and very entertaining. We’re probably paying a 10-20% premium over what we’d have paid for people to rip out our English ivy, but this is way more entertaining. It’s worth the extra. Bret Deveraux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, @bretdeveraux) is a four-square awesome writer and historian. He is one …
What I learned in 2021 Week 1
Griffin calls the examination table at his Dr. the “healing table.” I is ded of cute. I can’t go one day in the new year without screwing up the date. There’s such a thing as self-healing concrete, and that titanium dioxide added to concrete will make it self-cleaning “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg says he’ll do something …
Trump is a Fascist Demagogue and You Should Oppose Him
I’ve received several emails from people who seem to think I blindly hate Trump because I’m a pinko librul cuck gamma male who wants to prop up the nanny/welfare state and I hate America. Not at all! I mean, sure, some of that is true, taking out the alt-right, white-nationalist, stupidity translation. I do support social …
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Up and Over – 2017
For a great number of people I know, 2017 is only going to be better than 2016 because we know it’ll be bad, rather than have it be a surprise. The up-and-over metaphor is both apt—leaping from the trenches to assault the enemy—and inappropriate because we aren’t charging into minefields and massed machine-gun fire, we’re …
Hugo Awards 2016: Burn Them Down (and wait for 2017)
For the “too long; didn’t read” summary of this post: Hugo Awards 2016 are a Hot Mess and I’m Going to Make a Political Statement by ranking anything on the Rabid Puppies list below No Award. Some people don’t think that’s a good idea. I think those people are wrong. Now for the longer version: The 2016 …
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I Never Said…
…I’d do 30 essays in 30 days, with one per day. Just 30 essays.
November Essay 1: Meta Essay
National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a NanoWrimo starts today. It’s an exercise in writing a lot, and not editing. Put those fingers to the keyboards and type, type, type. I’ve written about NanoWrimo before. It’s not for everyone, but it has utility by getting people to put their butts in the chair and write—writing being the most …
Hugo Nomination: Impossible. Or IS it?
The Hugo debates keep going ((If you really want to know, go to File770.com. )). And going. And going. ((One of the nice things surrounding this unending back-stabbery is I’ve added to the list of people who have self-identified as “not worth reading.” I will be delighted to read a conflicting point of view, but …