On a Letter to Myself, Aged Sixteen

Dear Allyn, aged sixteen, In many ways, you and I are strangers. The passage of twenty years will do that, making strangers of even the closest of friends, and you and I are closer than friends, family, even brothers. You are me at sixteen, I am you at thirty-six. Twenty years. You may find itContinue reading “On a Letter to Myself, Aged Sixteen”

On Magnificently Mental Musings

As some of you know, I have a theory about where Russell T. Davies, henceforth RTD, is taking Doctor Who before he’s done next week. My theory is that it involves RTD pressing a Reset Button on his way out the door. The reasons are both narrative and personal. It lets RTD have his spectacleContinue reading “On Magnificently Mental Musings”

On Writing Macro Code For Work

Last week the publications at work went to press. I’ve always referred to this week as “Hell Week,” though for the most part it’s really not that bad. Maybe I have to stay late on Wednesday, but that’s not such a bad thing; I unplug the headphones on the computer speakers, crank up the subwoofer,Continue reading “On Writing Macro Code For Work”

On Secularism and American Demographics

I’m going to come back to this — Andrew Sullivan on “The Coming Age of the Nones.” Sullivan writes about an article in US News about the growing percentage of secularist Americans, and how the non-religious may number a full quarter of American’s population two decades out. There’s a part of me that welcomes moreContinue reading “On Secularism and American Demographics”

On This, That, and the Other

I’ve been wrestling with a Middle English text. Specifically, the Middle English translation of Prose Merlin from the French Lancelot-Grail Cycle. Why? Because while I’ve been working my way through the Lancelot-Grail Reader, I found something summarized in the excerpts of the Merlin there that I needed more details about. Fortunately, the Middle English ProseContinue reading “On This, That, and the Other”