I visited The Chocolate Moose today. My first visit and their first customer of the morning. The pleasant lady who unlocked the door for me and took my order said that each day her customers find exactly one gluten-free selection available for purchase behind the glass. Today’s selection, she said, was a cupcake. A chocolate s’mores cupcake. […]
This might not mean much to people whose idea of fun is ziplining or parasailing, but I do so enjoy page design. The very quiet, contemplative exercise of finding balance among shapes and colors. Like Japanese rock gardening, or like I imagine it to be, but I’ve never Japanese rock gardened, so I could have […]
William Gibson published Neuromancer in 1984. It’s the first book of his “Sprawl trilogy” and often pitted against Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, published in 1992, as the origin of (or precursor to, depending on your religion) cyberpunk, a science fiction subgenre. But whichever chicken you believe came first, there’s no doubting Neuromancer’s influence on all the eggs that hatched after […]
