And welcome once again to the Whiskey A Go-Go on the fabulous Sunset Strip.
Things seem a little slow around Wetmachine these days and I can only hope that Harold Feld has not gone on sabbatical, as I am a TotSF junky and am kinda jonesing a little right now. Howard Stearns has been a little scarce at ItF also, but I’m not worried: that boy is just gestating, I’m sure of it.
As for my own contributions, well, I’m working in my usual desultory way on three little essays:
— On the tendencies towards totalitarianism, anarchy and community, and where “technology” as a abstract concept fits into all of them;
— On the notion of Borgification;
— On walking away from a dream, or why I have stopped working on a novel that was specifically requested by a Big Name Publisher.
So, this is a placeholder entry. Until Stearns and Feld come back I’m going to hope that Gary will continue to populate with the odd disturbing story here and there so that we can continue in our disoriented stumblings into a fearful, fretful future the in the true Wetmachine way.
Related Posts:
- My Insanely Long Field Guide To The C-Band Spectrum Fight, And Why This Won't End In December. by Harold November 13, 2019 Like most everything else at the FCC these days, problems that have relatively simple and straightforward solutions turn into horrible complicated messes. Take the C-Band,…
- Get Ready for the 2022 Season of Spectrum Wars! by Harold March 15, 2022 It isn't the sultry Regency drama of Bridgerton, the action psycho-drama of Moon Knight, or even the, um, whatever the heck Human Resources is. But…
- What the Eff, FAA? My Insanely Long Field Guide to the FAA/FCC 5G C-Band Fight. by Harold November 8, 2021 5G has been accused a lot of ridiculous things -- causing Covid, causing cancer, causing autism. This article provides a list of 9 separate conspiracy…
- The Lessig Lawsuit (sung to the tune of "The Reynolds Pamphlet"). by Harold January 24, 2020 Cyberlaw Twitter has been mildly abuzz recently over the news that Professor Larry Lessig. Has decided to sue the New York Times for defamation. Specifically,…
- Mozilla v. FCC Reaction, or Net Neutrality Telenovela Gets Renewed For At Least Two More Seasons. by Harold October 7, 2019 I've been doing network neutrality an awfully long time. More than 20 years, actually. That was when we started arguing over how to classify cable…
- Auctioning a Chunk of 6 GHz Would be Phenomenally Bad Policy. by Harold March 4, 2020 Spectrum has once again become a hot topic in telecom. And in what is perhaps the oddest twist in this season's telenovela Spectrum Wars is…
“…why I have stopped working on a novel…” Say it ain’t so, Johnny! I was really looking forward to what I figure would be the only novel I’d get around to reading this decade. Without this, I might have to read that DaVinci thing that everyone’s talking about. It’s about coding, isn’t it?
Sorry about the ItF pause. Perdiod of rapid coding. More later.
Well, the gist of my (possibly someday forthcoming) essay is, “Family, Day Job, Writing a Novel: Choose Two.”
I may go back to working on it after some things around here sort themselves out. Maybe by the end of the summer.