He almost gets it

| May 23, 2003

Today while dissecting the various StarTrek offerings over the past 30-odd years, the indispensible James Lileks bleats: In the last few years [Deep Space 9] just got better and better – a four-year story arc, complex politics, exceptionally acted secondary characters & villains. I still think it’s the gold standard for Star Trek shows. Well, […]

A death in the family

| May 18, 2003

Thursday, my laptop computer died a horrendous death. The hard drive self-destructed. Absolute total loss. Not even slightly recoverable (without spending oodles of cash.) I say “my“, but it really belongs to my employer, and was issued to me for work use. That’s not to say I can’t use it for non-work things in my […]