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Happy Noniversary

To my love, my life, best friend, wife. Muse of muses, editor, conspirator, audience and focus group. Beta reader, critic, devotee, advocate, antagonist. Comfort, mainstay. Compass. Because of you, of us, future me doesn’t hate me. Love you, babe.

No Such Thing

…As bad publicity. In 1946, Kirkus Reviews described Halldor Laxness’s Independent People as “A sprawling, unselective, overlong… A bleak and bitter book, with little to interest or attract the American reader.” In 1955 Laxness took home the Nobel Prize in… Read More »No Such Thing

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Scratch!

What’s a seven-letter synonym for ‘Awesome’? Mitch Resnick and MIT’s Scratch. 37 million projects can’t be wrong. Yeah. You read that right. That’s Thirty-seven and six trailing zeros before the decimal. So yeah, awesome. Scratching your head? You can learn… Read More »Scratch!

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Fallen Apples

Artificial Intelligence, AI, isn’t going away. It also hasn’t conquered us. Yet. It has provided a looking glass of our own flaws and prejudices and biases. In 2016, Microsoft’s chatbot Tay spent a day chatting with people. The dewy-eyed innocent… Read More »Fallen Apples

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Haiku

Haiku piqued my interest on several levels. My muse loves the imagery and the syntax. The linguist in me has an intense love-hate relationship with the myriad translations. The form had a rather humble start. Japanese poets would engage in… Read More »Haiku