A quick New Years post catching up on recent media consumption. The best new book I read last year (and completed recent-ish) was NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. It was the book of the month for the Sword & Laser podcast for… October? Anyway, I haven’t read along with them more than a time or two, […]
Author Archives: Paul
Arachnophilia
Email I tried to send to Spider Robinson via his website under the Subject “Spider’s Impact”: I was first introduced to Spider via the copy of Telempath that I borrowed from my cousin Bud. I was likely 10 years old at the time and an avid science fiction fan. I was scandalized/delighted by the references […]
Transit
They actually had a heart-warmingly positive interaction. Two strangers at a BART station.
Stump Speech 1 for (whoever)
…the man who sits in the Oval Office today is utterly unworthy of his title, and I fear that those who have announced their intent to replace him may not be up to the task.
Protected: Avis is latin for “Bird”
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Fun with rental cars
The family and I had an awesome trip to Chicago this summer. Atypically, we decided that renting a car for the trip to the airport would be better than taking our car and paying for it to sit in the airport parking lot for a week. So, I rented a car from Avis.