Brave New World Redux
9 May 2017
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. … More Brave New World Redux
Google It
27 April 2017
Originally posted on Tue, Apr 17, 2012 @ 02:38 PM on the Buckley School Foundation blog. [Note this was well before MemWars … memory has been on my mind for awhile …] I am no Luddite. I am a technologist and have been nearly for my entire working career. Before that I was a science … More Google It
FogWalk
14 January 2017
Fog is rare in North Texas. We get it a couple times a year. Maybe. Today was what non-pluvophiles call a “dreary” day … cloudy, cold, misting mostly. The fog had been settling all day – I watched her creeping down the buildings near my office. So by dinner time she had settled aground.After a fine … More FogWalk
What we know, what we don’t
11 December 2016
I often hear people say “you don’t know what you don’t know.” And, you know, that is true. More interesting to me, however, is that often people don’t even really seem know what they do know. Whyso? If you struggle to remember something and then, in desperation (which is not to say laziness) you google … More What we know, what we don’t
On Butterflies
1 November 2016
I was recently asked by a very close friend “why butterflies?” As in … “uh, Will, butterflies seem to be rather a girly thing … so … what’s up with you being all … butterfly-y?” Sometimes you just never ask yourself those kinds of questions because … you just don’t. First, I am not a … More On Butterflies
Writing
3 July 2016
I often ask myself, “So, why should you blog? Aren’t you just making the great internet signal-to-noise ratio worse?” Perhaps. Then again, reading some of the obnoxious trash floating around the internet these days, it is hard to imagine that anything even semi-intelligent could make things worse. Clickbait, much? Most of the things that I … More Writing
Choosing Your Battles
5 July 2015
Let’s cut right to the kill. Sometimes, cowardice masquerades as prudence. For some, under the guise of choosing the right battle, the enemy is never engaged. This, for example, is a valid and just criticism of the establishment GOP crowd in Congress. They are so careful that they are in constant retreat. Their strategy (if … More Choosing Your Battles
