Category Archives: teaching

{Editor’s note: This has been sitting in my Drafts since early 2017 but seems as appropriate now.} You want an ACTUAL political revolution? You want to take back our democracy or “make America great again”? Then here are the vitally … Continue reading →

Spoilers abound, so if you, like me, are watching this over a year late {ed. note: now more like seven years}, be warned.

A bug hunt.  How I hate bug hunts. Spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 9 “All Those Who Wander”.

What can I say?  They can’t all be winners…

Still going.  I’ve been writing this blog on and off — really, mostly “off”, but hey — since this date in 2006.  That’s weird to think about.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds continues to impress. “Spock Amok” has all the ingredients for an epic disaster, yet… (spoilers ahead, Captain!)  

Watching “A Good Man Goes to War” led me to re-watching “The Wedding of River Song“, and of course that led back to “The Impossible Astronaut” and the start of Season 6. So it’s out of order — so what? … Continue reading →

Quite possibly no one noticed but me, but this site has been down since August 2020, when my web hosting service altered the name of their database server.  It should have been a quick fix, and eventually was, but 2020-2021 … Continue reading →

Interesting socio-cultural question: In this cover of “Fly Like an Eagle”, Seals sings “I want to fly like an eagle” but omits “till I’m free”, and changes “through the revolution” to “into the future”.   These aren’t accidental changes — … Continue reading →