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Reversal of Fortune, featuring Julia Child and chickens A... 25 Feb 2012 | 05:06 pm
Reversal of Fortune, featuring Julia Child and chickens A careful reading of the signs of the times reveals that the fastest way to get a 3-novel contract with any publishing house is to put it in re...
What's the fastest way for me to get a 3-novel contract with Penguin? 19 Feb 2012 | 04:32 am
John Dee has taken considerable time with this reply, as it turns on time as its central concern. John Dee assumes the petitioner is referring to what you might call traditional, and he calls real, bo...
Do Cellos Dream of Electric Guitars? (or is it the other way... 22 Apr 2011 | 01:58 am
Do Cellos Dream of Electric Guitars? (or is it the other way around) In answer to LRJP!, who asked via Twitter, ”Is the cello a dream of the guitar or the guitar a dream of the cello’s?”
Watson, Come Here, I Want You: featuring Alan Turing, Pontius... 6 Mar 2011 | 04:24 am
Watson, Come Here, I Want You: featuring Alan Turing, Pontius Pilate, Henry Higgins and the midcentury mainframe of your choice Does Watson know that he won? Ohhh, I’m sorry…in linking thinking to b...
“…I haue of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custome of... 17 Feb 2011 | 02:21 pm
“…I haue of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custome of exercise; and indeed, it goes so heauenly with my disposition; that this goodly frame the Earth, seemes to me a st...
“Cargo Cult,” featuring technology, transport and... 5 Feb 2011 | 05:30 am
“Cargo Cult,” featuring technology, transport and materiel. Excerpt from IBM 1401, A User’s Manual, by Jóhan Jóhansson. In answer to sargemetalfatigue, who asked, “is there any existing cargo cults?”
is there still any existing cargo cults? 2 Feb 2011 | 11:53 am
An excellent question. If you are referring to scattered techno-tribes wielding magic iPads and other interwebbed devices in the hopes of coaxing further information bounty from the cloud(s), then: no...
Modeling the Spectacle Should you happen to live in a city, you... 1 Feb 2011 | 10:45 am
Legos San Francisco by Liz Hickok Panorama, Queens Museum, NYC Belsay Hall, Newcastle by Slinkachu Wandsworth, London by Slinkachu Acropolis, Athens by Slinkachu Photo by asthmatic on Flickr Mo...
How might I construct a miniature city? 1 Feb 2011 | 09:53 am
Thank you for your question. Early signs point to different approaches depending upon whether you are interested in constructing the experience, tiny copies, or The Spectacle. Check future posts for m...
Anime Battles The Elements The recitation from three Japanese... 29 Jan 2011 | 03:01 am
Anime Battles The Elements The recitation from three Japanese schoolgirls giggling about boys is of course a caricature from a satirical operetta and exactly the cartoon it was meant to be, although ...
