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So I don't have to search for this link again. Los Angeles doesn't care: Every mode of living is appropriate for L.A. You can do what you want. And I don’t just mean that Los Angeles is some friendly bastion of cultural diversity and so we should celebrate it on that level and be done […]

Should be this. Or quote the going rate (you don’t wanna know). The obvious reply is that no one knows everything, and sometimes you just want a quick question answered yourself. But that kind of turns it into a barter economy of favors. Nonetheless, I think I spend a lot more time fixing other people’s […]

Or at least not looking too good. And there’s such a retreat to steampunk (which I despise): Why are the innovative and rigorously extrapolated visions of the future so thin on the ground and so comprehensively ignored? I’d put it down to us mistaking Sense of Wonder for Innovation. We used to read SF to […]

I just finished reading the New Yorker article about The Clock [1]. Serendipity. Someone was just commenting to me about how serendipity was hard to come by these days, since no one goes to the library, or reads newspapers, or looks at microfiche. One could argue that serendipity just hasn’t been around that long. Aside […]