Anyone who is a passionate fan of Terry Pratchett’s excellent ‘Discworld’ books has, while reading one or another of them, thought to themselves “This would make SUCH a good movie!” followed almost immediately by the sad thought “But there’s no way they could get it right.”
I’ve watched the 1997 animated mini-series “Wyrd Sisters”, and thought [...]

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My apologies for the dearth of new material here. I was struck down by the Respiratory Virus from Hell, which then spawned some mutant form of bronchitis. I missed almost four days of work (which is unusual for me) and spent the better part of a week wavering in and out of lucidity.
Now I am [...]

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After two days of delirium, I struggled into work this morning. It’s not that I’m feeling a whole lot better, it’s that there are Things that Must Be Done. Deadlines are deadlines, after all, and there’s a limit to what you can ask someone else to do for you. My plan is to leave just [...]

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I’m sick. It’s a cold this time, or possibly the first feeble stirrings of the flu. In any event, my brain isn’t functioning at top speed. In fact, my brain is wheezing along in first gear and stalling often. Nevertheless, my adoring public awaits! All three of you! And once again I must sully a [...]

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Strange Trip continued…
If you have no idea what this is, it’s an ongoing attempt to record my trip to grad school, and perhaps beyond. Entries are few and far between, and so your patience is appreciated. When last we left our hero, he was in a hotel in Missoula, Montana, wondering exactly what he had [...]

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I have recently been rereading the excellent Empire of Man tetralogy. It’s Space Opera, but it’s precisely the kind of Space Opera I love.
I’m on the third title now, “March to the Stars”, and while I’m enjoying it at least as much as the first time I read it, I am unfortunately consistently being distracted [...]

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