Some little rants and essays from over the years. In no particular order.

John Mount’s Trouble Free Crab Recipe

A real-life culinary adventure from grad school. Originally posted to one of the university bboards, eventually appeared in one of the early issues of Slow: the magazine of the slow food movement (March 1996). Apparently they seeded the magazine early on by scraping the web; the article appeared just like this, eccentric punctuation and everything. I’m not sure the magazine still exists, but the organization does.

Gerty: a character in Duncan Jones’s Moon

A comparison of Gerty to earlier science fiction AIs (including the obvious…).

Good Stationery as a Tool of Thought

The advantages of old-school, quality pen-and-paper over keyboard for creative tasks. Written in 2013. Kind of a companion piece to Nina Zumel’s I Write, Therefore I Think.

Star Wars: It’s a Good Life

My theory about the beginning of the Luke Skywalker saga.

Consumers Value Washing Their Jeans

Fortunately, Levis doesn’t use this circa 2014 ad campaign anymore. Do they?

We’re Cooked, Personal Musing on LLM-bros

LLM-bros are doing a lot of damage, let’s unwind it a little.