• Do not fail to read Bruce Schneier's latest short item in Wired, which is his simple demolition of David Brin's peculiar "transparent society" concept, which I first read of in his so-so novel Earth (1990) and thought was BS even then. Having no secrets doesn't ( Read more... )

Groundhog Day. Snowing like hell here, and not only didn't our groundhog see his shadow, he couldn't even get out of his burrow. Nor did we get out of ours: Carol and I slept in and spent part of the afternoon watching...Groundhog Day.

I was going to write a longish essay on what may be the ( Read more... )

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We're in Chicago for a bit, and Carol's been here now for over a week, cleaning her mom's house with her sister. After a week of nonstop elbow greasing, it was time for a break, and we decided to go see Monster House. Our first issue was simply finding a theater. With the single exception of ( Read more... )

Carol is recovering from a bad case of bronchitis, so Pete and I went down to Tinseltown to see Narnia: TLTWATW last night. I've surprised a few people by not being wildly enthusiastic about the film, but that's simply because I consider Narnia the least compelling of all of Lewis' work. I've only read the entire saga once, back when I was 17, and ( Read more... )