Computer games on paper: MiG-25, Colosseum, Mental Mills
Around 1986 my family bought an Amstrad PCW 8256 in Derry. I suppose at this distance it is OK to recall it was hidden under a blanket in the back seat…
Category: if a thing is worth doing it is worth doing badly
Chopping firewood – from “The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees” by Robert Penn
Chopping firewood can be done in short bursts – in fact, little and often is the best way to approach a large pile – yet, as the logs mount in…
To Solve Everything, Click Here – Evgeny Morozov
I first came across Evgeny Morozov via the computer history mailing list SIGCIS. In essence, Morozov had written a New Yorker piece which drew heavily on the work of the…
That Damn Family. Part 3 (of 4) nthposition.com , March/April 2008
Here there is a great dollop of exposition in the best declamatory style – including the word “yeomen”. Indeed, “local yeomen”. In the phrase “gathering local yeomen”. Ahem. Part 1…
From “The Poetry of Thought”, George Steiner
We do speak about music. The verbal analysis of a musical score can, to a certain extent, elucidate its formal structure, its technical components and instrumentation. But where it is…
Review of The Sword and Sorcery Anthology, edited by David G. Hartwell and Jacob Weisman, SF Site, 2012
Inadvertently, the last two posts here have provoked reflections on how I fell out of love with fantasy (and a somewhat lesser extent science fiction) – so this review continues that theme. I…
Pop Manga: How To Draw the Coolest, Cutest Characters, Animals, Mascots, and More. Camilla D’Errico. SF Site, 2014.
I enjoyed this how-to-book – it is user-friendly and fun. I thought of it earlier today while drawing, incompetently but with enjoyment, with my children. Drawing, even if you aren’t any…
Séamus Sweeney 