Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)

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I finally read an Ishiguro book that I enjoyed!  The author's Nobel Prize winning writing in my favorite genre of science fiction, coupl...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

New Foundland The Long Haul (2021)

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Neal Stephenson's dialog and some plotting shine in this fantasy story Radio Play . I don't like swords and sorcery fantasy but this...

Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of "Tribes of the Pacific Coast" by Neal Stephenson (2008)

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As a Neal Stephenson fan, I am always looking for more of his earlier writing and collaborations that I may have missed.  I found this story...

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (1859)

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This gripping, long-form essay is clear, approachable, and relevant in 2025.  The concepts are timeless and universal.  Our modern politics ...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Against a Dark Background by Ian M Banks (1993)

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Despite the nihilistic, dark themes and the gratuitous, purposeless violence, I enjoyed this space opera. The world building is reminiscent ...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

First they came for the Copy Editors. . .

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Apologies for abusing the famous Holocaust poem  in the title, I noticed today that the genAI bubble is making enormous progress at replaci...
Monday, February 17, 2025

Travel

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I enjoy leisure travel.  As I mentioned previously here ,  I want not only to see the sites when I travel, but also smell the diesel fumes, ...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Poor Charlie's Almanac by Charles Munger & Peter Kaufman (2008)

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Fantastic!  I don't care about stock picking or investing, but the wit and wisdom of Charles Munger in these engaging dialogs and speech...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Trusted Execution Environments and Byzantine Fault Algorithms

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After Reading Martin Kleppman 's famous book I became fascinated by Byzantine Faults and algorithms. These concepts and applications ar...

Backyard Starship by J.N. Chaney and Terry Maggert (2021)

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One of the genAI chatterbots recommended this series based on my reading history and ratings so I read the first book in the series.  The se...