Miss Izzy’s thoughts on Alan Turing remind me of my own essay on the fellow, which for some reason was marked private for over a year. I’m not sure exactly why. UPDATE: On having read the Alan Turing essay, I think I know. There’s a little crackpottery near the end. I agree with it, but it does wax a little apocalypso. Ah well…
Month: November 2006
Rich on Capitalism
Rich asks: What characteristics of other systems do you consider desirable? Interesting discussion precedes that question, of course.
Triangle Man
Whilst brushing my teeth tonight, the name of a jazz CD I’ve never heard ran through my head. It was called Triangle Man, by John Stetch, a pianist I saw live in Saskatoon probably 12 or 14 years ago. (He had Mike Murley with him, and it was the first time I heard Murley playing anything besides with the Shuffle Demons, and I was impressed.) Anyway, a bizarre little story–something a bit Poe-like, actually, except, well, weirder–began to take shape in my head, and now, 45 minutes later, I have a 1600-ish-word story which probably could do with a little …
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Good narration of this spooky Robert Service poem linked over at Ruminations in Korea. Click here to check it out. It certainly put me back in the drafting mood for my own spooky, nasty arctic story.
A No-Brainer Still Requires A Little Brains, I Guess
Apparently so. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 — With construction of many new nuclear reactors under discussion, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is grappling with the question of whether they should be designed to withstand a Sept. 11-style airplane attack. Ask yourself an obvious question, and the obvious answer becomes… well, obvious. Especially given that there are potential domestic threats in America, just as there are everywhere else in the world. Oklahoma, people. Remember? You can’t be serious thinking that no water on planes to America makes sense, but that a plane crashing into a nuclear plant and having a remote chance of …