While emailing a friend, I was reminded of a funny thing that happened once in a Korean newspaper. The band I used to play with was interviewed by a newspaper reporter — I can’t remember if it was the guy with the funny hair, or maybe the very pretty girl because of whom the word “reporter” became a euphemism for a “very pretty girl” in the band thereafter. Anyway, each band member was interviewed in turn, and when my turn came around, I was asked about my other interests. I stated that I’d been working on a book about the …

Out on the web (actually, on a minor mailing list I’ve got a sub to), someone was complaining about the apparent absence of intelligent life out there in space. Sadly, my first thought was, “Look, it’s hard enough to find on Earth, and you need to find more of it out there?” Come on, you know I’m right.