the mini podcast series Articles of Interest is still sorta new, but maybe a bunch of you have heard it already. I hope they do a seas...

while searching for some old article by Susan Leigh Star, which I think I found and now need to re-read, I also came across the old archives...

I have two pieces of very silly and largely irrelevant-to-everything news. firstly: one secret to a good writing day (like the one I met...

finals week has ended. semi-frantic emails from my students about their grades have begun. I am still in the middle of the last bits of ...

my dad was telling me the other day that most of his tools come with stories, and those stories are part of what makes those tools his. he k...

this is a bunch of small thoughts I've been collecting for a while. please, forgive the datedness and borrowedness of some of them and t...

I've just been playing around with this little doodle, originally posted way back in July . there are no love-related holidays in Ju...

new haircut. new plaid trousers. and to go along with these two plain and unassuming photographs I've just posted, I shall throw ...

november, six years ago, I began writing this story. that's all I remembered, really. the story since then has grown and grown and grown...

sometimes, things don't make sense. like why I love plaid so much. the central picture in this collage I made a long time ago had hint...

the longest work of fiction i have ever pulled out of my own head is (today) 106, 494 words long. like several of my other writings this one...

i was surfing this morning in a sea of online sciencey magazines, and i discovered some pretty amazing demonstrations of programming coolnes...