In the corner of the room, Sandy is working on her weekend project. She's got the wire and chips and waveguides almost finished. The resin cast is taking too long. It will take a month to go solid, and the launch is next week ( Read more... )

Twitter ( Read more... )

Musings on how to survive the cold from a few million years back ( Read more... )

Cats' eyes blinking in the dark round the house. Wildcats with tufted ears, wise little beards, knowledge of night. They ignore all my considered warnings. In my enhanced vision they all turn and face away, hoping a cheap trick snack ( Read more... )

"I used to play in those woods ( Read more... )

All nanotech researchers and lab assistants must spend two (2) hours a year alone in a small room with a swarm of no-see-ums, wearing shorts and no shirt ( Read more... )

One good thing about having been unemployed is when you go to a party with your friends, you don't spend the whole time talking about work.

In your hundred years
the world changes your fears.
Although you will find
you were free in your mind,
the cost of your thought
never meant what it ought.

Food for thought: will think for food. (unemployed) We'll pay you to think for us. (employer, consumer) You think for free and you pay for the privilege. (student) You think you were ( Read more... )

Desperation is achieved by suspending a spoon of highest quality ice cream. A distance no closer than two meters must be maintained ( Read more... )

Twitter hashtags are an "inversion of control" experiment in mass communication. I think it's cool the world gets to try this experiment. It's probably good for the humans.

1. Earlier, very centralized control ( Read more... )