In the spring of 1989, at UAH in my Introduction to Philosophy class, there was a girl named Carol whose eyes were the greenest, most lustrous things I’ve ever seen. They were pools of molten emerald. She sat several rows over and slightly further forward, so we’d have opportunities for eye contact as Dr. Cling … Read more
My printer wouldn’t work tonight. After some unproductive fiddling around, I finally figured out it was because my router had wiped its own brain. Tabula rasa, baybee. Its SSID was linksys again, and wide open. So my printer was trying to get on the network with credentials that no longer existed. (Remarkably, no one had … Read more
Rolex 24 at Daytona is this weekend! Bring on the motorsports. I didn’t care for how the football ended. I read today that European folklore often depicts vampires as having arithmomania—a strong urge to count things. It’s an expression of OCD. You scattered a lot of seeds on either side of a suspected vampire’s grave, … Read more