I’m close to a farewell to Usenet, aka “the newsgroups.” If my Usenet participation were an old game of Combat, the score would be blinking. This blog has rapidly become my primary writing outlet, and the pleasant interaction once to be had on Usenet has severely diminished. I’ve also noticed that it seems a very … Read more
I’ve loved Monopoly since I was little, and played an awful lot of it with the kids in my neighborhood growing up. It’s a bit unusual for me, because I’m not a big fan of most games that include a large element of chance. There are dice in Monopoly, so there is an element of … Read more
The weekend before Thanksgiving, 1994, Lea and I were invited to a dinner party that was something beyond jeans and let’s have a burping contest, but not quite all the way to taffeta and a rousing discussion of 19th century French poetry. We had been dating a grand total of five weeks, so we weren’t … Read more