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30 Jul 2026

Hi again. Been a while. It would have been even longer, except I recently received an email telling me I really should announce my appearance on the latest installment of “Tales From The Bridge”.

7 May 2026

“I try to be scientifically accurate. That’s my whole shtick.”—Andy Weir “You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.”—Inigo Montoya “We don’t need

10 Apr 2026

A minor fiblet for something I’m allowed to talk about. Just to prove that I’m still alive. More substantive posts, hopefully, to follow. Lest she backslide into complacency—lest, after so many

7 Dec 2025

Lers of Spoi. You have been warned. Just a quickie for the moment, because I’m busy missing my deadline for handing in Gremlin. (I would have made it, if not for the fact that I miscalculated how

7 Oct 2025

Lore from an old VR game that never got made, Probably because of its utter lack of resonance with anything anyone might be experiencing out here in the Real World…. Finn Oshanek did not watch his

5 Jul 2025

If you’ve been coming here for a while―seven, eight years ago―you may remember how this story started: with a homeless man on our porch, sheltering from a rainstorm; with his cat, Blueberry

12 May 2025

You may have heard of Christian Bök. You may have read about him on this very blog if you’ve been hanging out here long enough. Perhaps you were even one of the very select few to witness the

9 Apr 2025

…Being an interview by Ollie Barder that just went live over at Forbes (or slightly less live over at Archive, if you’ve used up your monthly allocation of free articles). Ollie was originally

28 Mar 2025

Do you like my story “The Things”? Do you more than like it? Do you adore it with a burning passion that puts the so-called “fandom” of all those other Things posers to shame? Do you wanna

18 Mar 2025

Analyze the claim that the Catholic church meets the definition of a terrorist organization under Canadian federal law. To analyze whether the Catholic Church meets the definition of a terrorist

23 Jan 2025

Volbert/Ghiordanescu, Watts Hi. Yeah, I know. Last person you wanted to see alive. If it’s any consolation, I might not be by now. Maybe I’m dead, maybe payback arrived and you just slept through

3 Jan 2025

The illo for “All the Songs”―assembled by me, actually, using elements courtesy of Liam Andrew and Dai Mar Tamarack. Not too long ago—back before Covid took me out for the holidays— I

24 Dec 2024

I have been wracked by COVID over the last ten days. If I’m not hot enough to set paper aflame, I’m wet enough to single-handedly power a water slide. Throughout the night, every 25 minutes on

13 Dec 2024

The Core enters the pilot. Ventilators boot up, hydraulics whisper reassurance, control surfaces flicker to life. Straps and webbing cinch tight, securing him to the command chair. Haptic controllers

28 Nov 2024

Which is what we called “Asset Management” behind the scenes, while I was writing it. Of course, back then I didn’t know I was writing it for Keanu fucking Reeves. Apparently they mentioned my

6 Nov 2024

“In 1933, people were not fooled by propaganda. They elected a leader who openly disclosed his plans with great clarity. The Germans elected me… ordinary people who chose to elect an

20 Oct 2024

A Blast from the Past: Arpanet. Internet. The Net. Not such an arrogant label, back when one was all they had. Cyberspace lasted a bit longer— but space implies great empty vistas, a luminous

26 Sep 2024

Preamble: OK, I lied. Said last time that this time was gonna be about science, and no more of this fluffy promo bullshit. And I meant well. But this time, the fluffy promo is about me. And it’s

12 Aug 2024

I know, I know. Two pimpage posts in a row. Not my usual shtick, and I assure you not any kind of new normal; the stars just aligned that way this time around. For what it’s worth, next time I

25 Jul 2024

(As usual, click on any of the following images to embiggen. Although I really shouldn’t have to be telling anyone that.) You might have seen a dude by the name of Dimitry SkoLzki hanging around