Uneasy Rhetoric

Exurban sprawl has come to the solar system. Once a quiet community of nine planets spinning lazily around the hot urban core, the solar system has become a vast megalopolis, surrounded by cold, dark, impersonal bodies who take hundreds of years to make their commutes around the sun.
The recent deregulation of our planetary system [...]

Looks like I made the Bee’s “Surfing USA” section in the Sunday Forum, although the post that made it was from my Vox account, a blog that I really don’t have much intention of updating, at least not right now. Oh well. Hopefully, anyone who goes there will see fit to come over [...]

Some Foreign Service Institute language courses are now available online, free! From the site:
These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain.
This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. It is an independent effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages. [...]

Is it me, or is autumn in the air this August? The wind brings with it a hint of coolness, the leaves are sounding drier, and the shadows are longer. The days are still warm, but at night the Delta breeze, often a relief from the heat, now conjures images of long-sleeve shirts [...]

It looks like I have two more invitations to Vox, the new blog-thingy by Six Apart, the people who run the software that hosts something like 130 percent of all blogs that are never updated. Vox is currently in “preview,” which means there are a limited number of invites out there. Sort of [...]