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July 13, 2018
Some Funny Thoughts on Economics by Alpheus Madsen
by Alpheus Madsen
As a mathematician pretending to be a software developer recently looking for work, I couldn’t help but notice that there’s been an up-tick in companies looking for software developers who can program on blockchains — in particular, for projects to create automatically executable contracts for cryptocurrencies. I have learned a bit about these, and am particularly intrigued by the idea of recording transactions in a way that isn’t very susce...
July 12, 2018
Chaos
One of the things that the left side of the isle (but not just them) don’t understand about people like us is our chaotic nature.
Yes, I do have a coffee mug that says “I like playing chaotic neutral, because I like to keep all my options open.”
One, I don’t actually play D & D. I did it once, when I was a housewife with a small boy and stuck at home all day and I think I inadvertently took up DMing for the group, which made it way too much work. If I’m going to work that hard, I want a nov...
July 11, 2018
Dreams Whose Time Has Passed – A Blast From the Past From January 2013
Years ago, I was talking to an older writer friend and she said wasn’t it weird how the future they expected and anticipated, with refectories and public crèches never came to pass. I pointed out that, though they weren’t provided in a centralized manner, it had come to pass. Back then (early 2000s) we were living a rather hectic life and often stopped for take-out – along with every other family with two working parents...
July 10, 2018
Out of Control
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This morning I woke up to two bizarre things: three coyotes merrily walking around the path between my back yard and the nature preserve in the full light of day.
For perspective, my neighbors often walk their dogs there. Add also my reason not to have dogs right now — though we kind of wanted to — is that two weeks or so after we moved in, a coyote got into the neighbor’s yard and eviscerated the dog. Who wasn’t small.
One of the things I really liked about hanging out in my backyard was...
July 9, 2018
The Mirror
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As we get older it becomes harder to look at ourselves in the mirror. And no, it’s not just the obvious signs of aging but that we have to face — not even choices but — things that happened in our lives that left a mark on that person looking back on us.
Those of us who grew up near a large and relatively stationary family (look, dad’s family lost half its kids or more to other countries each generation (I represent) but there were enough that stayed there) and had enough generations to kno...
July 8, 2018
Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike and Sunday Book Promo
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Book Promo*Note these are books sent to us by readers/frequenters of this blog. Our bringing them to your attention does not imply that we’ve read them and/or endorse them, unless we specifically say so. As with all such purchases, we recommend you download a sample and make sure it’s to your taste. If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com. One book per author per week. Amazon links only.-SAH*
FROM ARLAN ANDREWS: Silicon Blood.
...July 7, 2018
RAH!
This should be a serpent eating its tail, but I don’t feel like looking for an image, so twisty candles will have to do.
It is Heinlein’s birthday. It is also coincidentally my oldest son’s birthday. It is one of those things that makes me believe I’m living in a novel, as it connects me simultaneously to the past and the future. The man who molded my thought, and the man I helped mold (a little bit. It will shock all of you that he’s a stubborn cuss, right?) both sharing the same name and...
July 6, 2018
The Guardian fan-girls over yet another Clinton – by Amanda S. Green
I know. I know. I was supposed to have blogged yesterday. Life has been “interesting” in more ways than one of late and time got away from me. I sent Sarah and apology and a promise to have something for her today. Later, she sent me a link to an article with the comment, “If you want something to snark . . .” Well, it took reading only the first paragraph to know snark won out. I needed something to snark and, OMG, she ga...
July 5, 2018
What Shall Always Be With Us
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There are a bunch of sour pusses running around who quote John Adams on “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” to claim that every misfortune that comes our way is because we’re not moral and religious according to their version of morality and religion, or that we’ll never make the republic function, because, you know, we’re not perfect angels.
That sound you hear is me rolling my eyes hard.
Look, I haven’t...
July 4, 2018
Happy Fourth
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A writer’s head is a weird place in that we’re never alone. No, not even in the bathroom when someone — glares inward “You know who you are” — takes advantage of the situation to start dictating a novel.
But they’re there even when you’re not writing.
Right now in my head there’s a massive picnic in someone’s pasture. It’s 20 years since the events in AFGM and the first time that they DARE have a public fourth of July (high holy holiday) celebration. There’s fireworks, and people runnin...
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