I wrote the first draft of this one before Drill Core’s early-access version came out, a few weeks ago. The […]
Alice in Terrorland (2023) review
The movie opens with a teenage1 girl, Alice, sitting by the side of the road in modern-day Britain. (Maybe in […]
21 cents
This urinal belongs to a restaurant that, at the time, was running a special that came to $10.79. That isn’t […]
24. No tape for you, peon
I’m somewhat annoyed by the fact that Scotch tape is treated like a controlled substance here. This is the second […]
And goodbye to Reddit, too, I guess
So I was browsing Reddit one day, minding my own business, when I saw a post on (I think) r/Deusex […]
23. Debit cards don’t work that way
Confidential to C.A.: There are four possible ways to use a debit card in a card reader – the chip, […]
The stupidest “explicit content” moderation I’ve ever seen personally
While I was writing about an old sci-fi book that probably wasn’t deliberately removed from Google’s search results, the theory […]
Load time, server hiccup, or conspiracy?
So I had a stray thought about a story – yes, I still occasionally at least think about writing fiction […]
Texture
So one day I got bored with cloud textures and decided to immortalize a patch of mulch instead, resulting in […]
Goodbye, Twitter
I had only intermittently been skimming my Twitter feed recently anyway, because I’m far enough behind on RSS, my main […]
Ray of Infamy 