This one starts with a sad story. Not about someone I know personally, but a friend of a friend of a friend. But it could
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The other day I was looking for a Christmas card with a Nativity scene to send to a more religious friend and I couldn’t find
The algorithm works in mysterious ways. I spent almost a full year working in a documentary film about Finland, taking the trouble to create complicated
The world you were born in no longer exists. When I was a child, thousands of years ago, the world was still mostly analog. I
You know what, I miss the 1990s. All the way up to the early 2000s. And not just because I was young in that period.
There’s a lot of doom in the Internet, especially among the alternative news crowd. People can’t get enough of the “end of the world/end of
Godi, Fiorenza, poi che se’ sì grande, che per mare e per terra batti l’ali, e per lo ’nferno tuo nome si spande! (Dante, Inferno,
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but I haven’t written much here. I spent the past couple of weeks visiting family in Spain, reading Brothers Karamazov1 on
For several weeks, protests against Israel’s campaign in Gaza have been ongoing at several American universities and a few European ones. It’s basically the same
As the world moves closer to WWIII for reasons no sane man can understand, I prefer for the moment to write about travel. I am