Author: Chuck

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Paper Exhalation

Books

A double book report for two tangentially-related books: Paper by Mark Kurlansky, and Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Saturday, October 3, 2020

Notes on Being a Decent Human

Politics

Lecturing Americans to show sympathy for Trump is like lecturing someone going through chemotherapy to show sympathy for their tumors.
Saturday, September 26, 2020

Does He Even Know He’s the Heel?

Politics

Looking for voices of reason in the middle of America’s most successful kayfabe administration
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Postcards from Bat2

Personal, Photos

Photos from a pre-COVID trip to Disneyland in February 2020
Saturday, September 19, 2020

Rapid Face Aging Project X-2000

Personal

Witnesses the ravages of two years in under 60 seconds
Saturday, September 19, 2020

Postcards from Batuu

Disney, Photos

Photos from various trips to Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland (before the pandemic)
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Little Space Tate

Politics

You can’t spell “Unctuous toadies Giving up any semblance of integrity and Abdicating any responsibility to their students and their country” without UGA!
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

The Audacity of Accountability

Politics

Somebody should do something to make people more responsible
Friday, September 4, 2020

Read-Only

Personal, The Internet

I don’t know who needs to read this, but after around 15 years I finally have to admit social media was a mistake.
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Third Choice

Politics

Reacting to the Democratic National Convention, and reconsidering what it means to truly reject cynicism.
Saturday, July 11, 2020

Neo-Tokyo is about to extrude

3D Printing, Board Games

Adventures in 3D Printing tokens for the game Godzilla: Tokyo Clash
Saturday, July 11, 2020

One Thing I Love About Hamilton

Movies, One Thing I Like

We’ve been hearing such effusive praise about Hamilton for so long that I’m not surprised by how much I enjoyed it. But I am surprised that the ending had me ugly-crying.