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Category Archives: Stamford
Lockheed
I start working (remotely) at Netflix on Monday. Supposedly, Netflix will be consolidating their Animation operations in the office complex at The Empire Center in Burbank. When I was growing up, Burbank was a two industry town: aerospace (Lockheed) and … Continue reading
Out
As Americans talking about America, we always seem to use “back” when we talk about the East (“back East”) but we use “out” when we talk about the West (“out West”). Some vestigial frontier mentality, I expect.
International
I cooked spicy Xinjiang lamb by carving the meat off the bone and then put the bones to good use by making lamb broth for cooking a traditional Scottish winter soup.
Goat
Human communication is so beautifully weird. I love how the term “Greatest of All Time” evolved into “G.O.A.T.” which, in turn, evolved into just an emoji of an actual goat.
Anonymous
If I were Lawful Evil, I would write a tome debunking the QAnon connections with the Star Wars mythology and, thus, cement the QAnon connections with the Star Wars mythology.
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Suburbia
Inspired by Frederic Jameson‘s Archaeologies of the Future, I’ve been rereading a lot of books as well as trying to fill in gaps in my knowledge of utopian & dystopian writing. In doing so, I stumbled on this damning quote … Continue reading
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Foster
Wait, wait, wait. David Wallace on The Office was named after David Foster Wallace?
Cynicism & Exuberance
I was thinking about why over the decades I have always found Penn & Teller so delightful and I think it is because they combine two important aspects of my own personality: cynicism & exuberance.
Trauma
Almost daily I think about this clip of William Gibson talking about the time-and-space trauma we as a culture are enduring, much like the Victorians before us:
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Cottage
In futurist Alvin Toffler‘s book The Third Wave he coined the term “electronic cottage” to describe a hypothetical future when, thanks to advances in telephony, people would be able to work from their own homes. He thought of this as a … Continue reading
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Upsetting
There is a very specific feeling I experience from time to time. And I find myself always using the same word to describe it: “upsetting” I think it might be something like the 18th century usage of “sublime”. The last … Continue reading
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Quarantime
I’ve coined the portmanteau word “quarantime” for the weird, elastic sense of time during quarantine. Every day feels like Monday and Friday simultaneously.
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Montaigne
While reading three wildly different books… A Secular Age by Charles Taylor Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles …I noticed that all three mentioned Michel de Montaigne. Seems like it’s time to … Continue reading
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Introversion
People keep asking me how I’m dealing with the lockdown and I have to remind them that a lifetime of introversion, earthquake preparedness, and post-apocalyptic media means that I am well-equipped for this exact scenario.
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