Glass Maze Every jumbled pile of person

Zebras

Yeah:

Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does [...]

iWonder Redesign

The proprietor of iWonder Designs — programmer extraordinaire, accomplished artist, and my brother — just redid his site, and it’s drop-dead gorgeous. Not standard Web 2.0 gorgeous, with the giant buttons and the rounded corners and the pastel palettes — no. Idiosyncratically, oddly gorgeous, a lovely-strange melange of wanted poster and tea-stained tablecloth and ancient [...]

Another Hard Drive Dies

Fuck. Fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck. My hard drive just crashed.

But not just crashed. Crashed and took two weeks of data with it. Including my taxes (unsent, of course) and a story I was actually managing to make some progress on, a rare thing in these fallow post-Clarion days.

And the killer is, I could have [...]

An Unsent Open Letter to Lord Jobs

I went to the Apple Store this morning to see if they could fix my damaged iPhone, and was rebuffed — but not for the reasons I expected.

So I got home, brooded a bit, then wrote a letter to Steve Jobs, bitching about the whole experience. Which is mildly ridiculous, of course. In the larger [...]

Fafblog Returns

Huzzah, felicity, and joy … Fafblog is back:

“Screw this dump!” says Giblets. “This universe is old and fat and smells like smelling and Giblets is busting out!” “Should we go over the wall or take the tunnel?” says me. I been diggin a tunnel. “Nuts to the [...]