I have looked at a lot of art, lately, because I have had some time on my hands. Stories and games, and especially story games, have long been my preferred coping mechanism for life, so this is hardly a surprise. This is the first of a series of posts to sort of clear my mental buffer of thoughts about what I'm currently enjoying, and I'm going ( Read more... )

The human explorer with the most unique claim to fame ever has died.  The torch he lit for our species has been dropped by us all, my generation in particular.  I hope we go to the moon again one day.

( His official NASA obituary )

One thing that motivated me to write about this was Morlock's short essay on the topic, to which I linked in my previous post. Another was hearing part of this conversation on NPR's superb Tell Me More. [transcript] It's about a program in schools in Washington DC to have playground coaches, to tamp down the Lord Of The Flies aspect. I wished ( Read more... )