1. We just heard the news that Phil Harris, Captain of the Cornelia Marie, has died at age 53 of a stroke. You may know him as "Captain Phil" from Deadliest Catch, a series of which Spooky and I are oddly fond. And the news is oddly sad. He was our favorite captain on the show. To quote the AP release, "Harris started working on fishing boats at ( Read more... )

1. As of this morning, I have not left the House in nine days. My record is, I think, eleven. I'm tempted- given the weather and this mountain of work -to go for twelve and set a new record. I think the only thing that bothers me about my tendency to be content inside for long stretches of time is the fact that it really doesn't bother me ( Read more... )

Exquisite bits from 1st Avenue Machine, with Sirenia Digest subscribers in mind. Yes, they are car commercials. You're welcome.

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Total frelling chaos last night, and it was no one's fault but my own. What with the insomnia, exhaustion, stress, the shelving of The Dinosaurs of Mars, etc. & etc., I somehow managed to miss or ignore the notice that my website's domain registration was set to expire on August 11th. On July 7th, Register.com delivered a notice to my old dot.Mac ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here, trying to wake up, and David Bowie's singing "Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do," and that sent me straight back to the continental-drift dream (see yesterday's entry), and somehow that got me thinking about James Lovelock and his Gaia Hypothesis (and really, hypothesis here should appear with quotation marks), ( Read more... )

I think I may have had an epiphany or sorts. I've referred to myself as a transhumanist since sometime in 1997. It's even on the dust jacket copy of To Charles Fort, With Love. But now I'm beginning to see that when I say "transhumanist" I mean something quite different from what most people mean when they they "transhumanist." By transhumanism I ( Read more... )