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/ But when you said that I wasn’t worth talking to / I had to take your word on that /

I was massively into “Exile in Guyville” back in 1993 (sigh), & in fact I’m sure that I still have a battered & grimy CD — plastic case splintered & cracked from living in various cars & being moved around the country for 25 years — still buried in a box in my closet. There’s […]

Songs of The xx, ranked.

My Top 20 XX songs (from great to awesome): SONG ALBUM 20 Try Coexist 19 A Violent Noise I See You 18 Islands XX 17 Tides Coexist 16 Angels Coexist 15 VCR XX 14 Dangerous I See You 13 Shelter XX 12 Swept Away Coexist 11 Heart Skipped A Beat XX 10 Sunset Coexist 9 […]

On the Pleasure of NOT Meeting Adam Savage at Comic Con Last Year

Its Comic-Con time again here in Silicon Valley this weekend, & since it was my son’s most wonderfully favorite day evar! last year, we’ve already got our two day passes & are prepping for crowds & cosplay & celebrities. And lines. Always the lines. Last year, the boy had 2 goals — #1 being to […]

Yugen (幽玄)

As I commuted to work this morning, I listened to some melancholy songs that I haven’t heard for a little while. As I absentmindedly sang along to “The Guide To The Short Wave Radio” & felt all of the things, traffic stopped & I looked over to my left… …& saw a small, light brown […]

The Ghost in the MP3

I’m a sucker for procrastination by way of jumping down the rabbit-holes of new curiosities (‘How’s that novel coming along, Matt?’, whispers my better self…) — & lately I’ve been sort of obsessed with the concept of AGI (“Artificial General Intelligence“), which is slightly more broad than the specific kinds of AI that populates our […]