Young people are just not buying homes nowadays like they used to. junior citizens are well aware of how impossible the mathematics are, but their senior counterparts are not having any of it. We see wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth, often with platitudes … Continue readingHousing on Hard Mode: to be a Zoomer…
Don’t ask me how I got into this, but I was reading up on myopia, i.e. nearsightedness, and I was shocked by how common it is — in parts of Asia up to 90% of the younger generation is nearsighted, with Western countries approaching the … Continue reading“She Hasn’t Grown Out of Her Readers Yet”
I ask: “what if: a bromofluorocarbon world?” “A what?” you might reply. It’s perhaps one of the most underrated of all alternate history what-ifs: it’s well known that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), while inert and non-toxic on the surface, destroy ozone when they waft up to the … Continue readingBeautiful and Terrible as the Dawn
After a pang of sadness, I turn to watching other people play SimCity 3000 Unlimited on Youtube…and then of course it suggests ambient music videos of the most haunting sort, for there they are: the Twin Towers of New York City’s World Trade Center. And … Continue readingDo Zoomers Dream of the Twin Towers?
When Donald Trump says “nobody has ever seen a movement like this”…he’s not wrong. Already his second presidency has distinguished itself in one way: the unique way he did not hold his hand on top of a Bible as he took the oath of office. … Continue readingOf Inaugurations Other
Oh, what’s this? I’m treated like a normal person now? My perennial difficulties with socializing have almost disappeared? Yes, it’s true! After a lifetime of trying! The secret? I look almost as good as a fashion model. That’s the secret. Yes, I am more confident … Continue readingJust Be Pretty
In this post, after a long break (thanks, real life, for nothing, says the writer part of me) I return to my roots here: sharing the thoughts I have that are just too long to fit in a tweet, in a format that’s just more…permanent. … Continue readingCinematic Universe?
I’ve remarked often that the social machinery of the United States, our very identity as Americans, is dependent on carving industrial empires out of the wilderness with a firehose of immigrants from Europe. As soon as the frontier closed and the flow of people from … Continue readingOne Billion Americans, 19th Century Style?
I’ve been mulling the past few days about what I could do for my future daughter, the wheels in my head turning to thoughts of small wineries (less expensive than you probably think; even in prime regions they apparently can be had for well under … Continue readingDo NPCs Dream of Overseas?
For the tornado season part of my storyline, I’ve gotten the idea that during one of the great outbreaks in May, the triplets-cum-rock-stars will take their storm-chasing concert convoy (yes, that’s a thing in this story’s universe) to the north, tracking a strong tornado into … Continue readingOut of the Medicine Line, and Into the Shadow World