Elevator Games

November 20, 2024

Another Banksy rat, this one found in the elevator of the Fenimore Museum. I admit I don’t know what the hell is going on here, The rat seems to have a cassette recorder strapped to his chest, and his face is— exploding?— undergoing transformation? His paintbrush(?) also seems to have suffered. Your guess is as […]

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Wave Action

November 19, 2024

This is a photograph of the 2012 solar eclipse in the South Pacific. We were on a ship a couple days’ voyage north of New Zealand, and it was following the track of totality across the water. Unfortunately the sea wasn’t completely still. I had set the camera for a long exposure, the ship rolled, […]

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On the Table

November 17, 2024

Some of you should recognize this. It’s at the Corning Museum of Glass. I’d ask something like “what is this?”, but it would open the doors to floods of Cyrillic spam, so it’ll have to remain a mental exercise. UPDATE: If any of you guessed that this was the Periodic Table of the Elements, you’d […]

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Age of Wonders

November 16, 2024

It’s the Tower of Pyrex! At the Corning Museum.

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Shoveling It

November 15, 2024

In my last post, I mentioned that much of my life consists of dealing with bullshit, stuff that matters so little that there’s no sense of challenge or accomplishment in coping with it. Let’s take last week as an example. Firstly there was a cold snap, that climaxed on a full-on winter storm that knocked […]

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Love in the Wainscot

November 12, 2024

I’ve posted only a few times in the last months, which is an indication of how exciting my life has become. I bounce between two poles, Pain and Duty, and I don’t much care to write about either. Pain is always there, and Duty isn’t even interesting— it’s mostly being obliged to do stuff that […]

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No Accident

November 9, 2024

The Accidental War, the first book of the latest Praxis trilogy, is on sale through November 18 at Amazon for a mere $1.99. So far as I can see, the other online vendors have matched this price, so you can get it from your favorite online source. For those of you unfamiliar with the series, […]

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Palomar

October 30, 2024

This is the mirror blank for the Hale Telescope at Mt Palomar. It doesn’t look like a mirror because it hasn’t been silvered and polished. This 5-meter, 36-ton disk was cast at the Corning Glass Works in 1934, and is made of their brand-new miracle glass, Pyrex. The hot glass caused part of the frame […]

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Yours For the Taking

October 25, 2024

Ebook Daily is offering The Praxis as a $1.99 bargain special. I don’t know when this special will end, so it’s best to buy while you can.

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Ratsy

October 24, 2024

Furry friend discovered on the wainscoting of a large building in Cooperstown, NY. There were seven rats in the building, and I found six. I think I knew where to find the last, but by that point my feet were tired.

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