What follows here is an email that I sent out at work. On the occasion of Ray Bradbury's death, I came to work without a hat. I wrote this email to forestall the inevitable queries about this momentary disturbance of my habit ( Read more... )

Three things:

1) SpaceX is slated to launch their Falcon 9 to the ISS tomorrow morning around 3 AM. Hooray!
2) Solar eclipse Sunday! Hooray!
3) Last game day at Trista's place tomorrow!

This, for its picture of Shakespeare & Company, made me think of necropalice -- who, frankly, I am guilty of not thinking enough about in the recent past.

And for the rest of you? Well, it's photos of pretty bookstores. How can you possibly go wrong?

This is something worth posting about ( Read more... )

Happy day after, folks!

I came home and opened up my mailbox. In there was a package. Addressed to me -- the "grand genius". Iiiinteresting.

Inside the package was a shirt.woot shirt. The Raven one which I remember gemlikeflame lusted after a bit. I wondered for a moment who would have sent it to me and then I noticed that the shirt was a size smaller ( Read more... )

A bunch of people ask me "Hey Phil! You're such a skeptic, so why do you care about Groundhog Day? Is it because the groundhog's name is Punxsutawney Phil ( Read more... )

The Saturn IB rocket. The second stage of that rocket was the S-IVB and was used as the third stage for the Saturn V rockets which would go to the moon.

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Had a note from K~ today. The contents were simple: I love you. I miss you. I'm sorry ( Read more... )

An out of print Blade Runner book of production sketches.


Open publication - Free publishing - More blade runner

It occurs to me that I've never actually sat down and written about Blade Runner.

This isn't connected to any particular incident, but I really, really, really hate people right now.

I feel more and more like someone who is floating through society and trying to make do by apeing social conventions.