2018 has barely started, and as far as I can tell, will be even more interesting than 2017. For the first hold my beer moment, James Damore has filed suite against Google. Now, Google has more lawyers and money for such cases than the budgets of some nations, but unless they can convince people that the various screenshots and other leaked information are all faked, a lot of dirty laundry will come out that doesn’t make Google look good to normal people. Secret blacklists, and other shenanigan…
Belated, but as of Monday we’ll be back on a regular schedule. Got most of the back end issues cleaned up, and getting the rest of my calendar in order. In the meantime, for those, like me, stuck in the cold, a bit of warmth and sunshine.…
Been mostly out of touch the last week or two with family and work, but it’s a new year. Also, had issues regarding wordpress and memory limits, so going through to clean up and optimize a few things else I’ll have to make some host changes. Looking back, it’s been an utterly mind-blowing year. The God-Emperor is president. We have a rising indie [http://www.brianniemeier.com/] and pulp [http://jonmollison.com/] author [http://www.nickcolebooks.com/] movement. Call it an alt-SF, with Castalia H…
Christmas and family have taken up my time, and no, I didn’t plan ahead for articles on the season. Regular posting will resume soon. In the meantime, a few tidbits I’ve come across. First, a couple recaps of “Things I Won’t Work With” and a few entries I hadn’t posted before: What This here Compound Needs is Some Hydrogen Peroxide [http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/09/27/what-this-here-compound-needs-is-some-hydrogen-peroxide] . Peroxide Peroxides [http://blogs.sciencemag.or…
Another round of Ms Scarlett…