The Firefly Festival never happened, mostly because the fireflies respect no one’s schedule – some night in June and, wham! Fireflies. I wanted to host a dinner out in the grass with them, but it’s impossible to get guests to commit to show up on some random evening in June.
I feel like we typically leave big parts of our lives and motivations unexamined; sometimes, if we’re lucky, something happens that makes us engage our brains about one thing or another and we examine it and think about it enough to get an idea about how we work inside. [Read more…]
The Soviets briefly were ahead of the US in the “space race” and took maximum propaganda mileage from it.
One of the dynamics I always like about making things is that you get into a weird loop in which you’re making things to help you make things – and you spend a lot of time making preparatory things before you can go full production. [Read more…]
In the Year of The Pig [wc] was one of the first feature-length documentaries attempting to reveal the foolishness and corruption of the Vietnam War.
A recent FOIA released an archive of NSA motivational posters.
I have no idea what kind of bird this is, and I’ve never seen one with those markings, before. [Edit: It is a killdeer]
Dogs are splendid creatures.
SPOILER ALERT: A popular illusion
When you learn how a trick’s done, does it “spoil” it for you? Sometimes I gnash my teeth a bit, but I find that when I know how a trick’s done, my appreciation for the trickster actually increases, and I have a good opportunity to examine my own cognitive biases and how I fell for redirection.
This posting contains spoilers for Infinity War.