I Must Have Missed It
Apr 20Jon Stewart, just now: We’ve been given a false choice between tyranny and anarchy. Hey! When was I offered that choice?
R.U.R. or R.U.Rn’t My Robot?
Apr 16I very much doubt that I’m the first person to have thought of this, but I haven’t found it mentioned anywhere else, so I’ll put forward my conjecture: might the title for Karel Čapek’s most famous (though certainly not best) work, R.U.R., have been inspired by the formerly all-pervasive (see, e.g., the abbreviation on the [...]
Amnesiac in Vegas
Apr 11Since returning from Prague, I’ve been wrestling with an email crisis (my university randomly deleted all my past emails; they keep saying they’ll have them back “any day now,” and in the meantime I’ve been scrambling to figure out what the hell I’m doing, given that, as it were, a large part of my brain [...]
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