R.I.P. Walter Koenig 1936-2026
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For a short while, Walter Koenig was a teenybopper sensation. In his early
30s he could easily pass for a character in his early 20s as Star Trek's
e...
Revenge of DEI
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In the first moments of the Boss Chaos era in early 2025, as Elon Musk
prepared to take on his role as Lord High Executioner, his reaction to the
horri...
Fairy Tales
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Fairy tales do come true, it can happen to you...
It happened to the Milwaukee Brewers, a team that's been around since 1970
and never before won a Wo...
On Having Turned 80
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It seemed odd, even to me, that after posts (or, let's face it, essays) on
major and not so major birthdays for the past 20 years, I let turning 80 go ...
Jonathan Miller
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Of all the people I didn't know who died in 2019, I was most saddened by
the death of Jonathan Miller. He was an important presence at various
times in ...
Turning 72: I Dwell in Possibility
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This blog hasn't been active in awhile, but I did post on significant
birthdays here: turning 60 and turning 65. Now I've gone past the 60s. So
although ...
Early Warning
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Jeff Masters at Weather Underground unearthed this brief video excerpt from
a Bell Laboratory Science series episode in 1958, that includes a mention
of ...
R.I.P. Ada Louise
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I never met Ada Louise Huxtable, though for a brief period we were both
writing for the New York Times. She even quoted me in one of her books, and
I certa...
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