New song: The Thing With Feathers
My first new song in a while. Hope this helps.
Coming Never
Extremely belated update
So the two MMOs I mainly stream — Final Fantasy XIV Online and World of Warcraft — are in content lulls right now awaiting the summer debuts of their new expansions. FFXIV has some seasonal stuff coming and WoW has a couple of interim patches before then, but streams on those will be irregular until summer. One way I’m filling time in the interim is going through the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series — the original 8-bit console versions freshened up slightly for PC — running Sunday and Monday evenings. Since I’ve never had a game console, this is my first time playing these classic games (and thereby learning where…
Waltz of the Copyright Bots
Inspired by adventures with Facebook. But only in Russia and Belarus.
Thoughts on a kaboom
First reaction (on admittedly too little sleep) to SpaceX's Starship/Falcon Super Heavy test flight April 20, 2023.
Space Battleship Red Dwarf
Somehow recently I had the themes of both "Space Battleship Yamato" and "Red Dwarf" on the brain, and this mashup was the result.
A fire in the sky, 20 years later
I knew it would be my last chance to see a space shuttle passing over Waco during re-entry; what I got wrong was why Columbia’s return would be the last time. An updated version of my Waco Trib column from 2013.
Hope Is The Thing…
There have been several recent discussions concerning Emily Dickinson’s description of hope, and the accuracy thereof. Today in my mind they crystalized into this. The image by Xing Lida and Song Qijin accompanied a Science News item from April 2010 about fossil evidence suggesting that at least one feathered dinosaur molted during development the way modern birds do, as reported in a letter to the journal Nature. There will probably be a song about this in the near future.
Toast for Talos Builders
I've been trying to come up with a song for this bit of Final Fantasy XIV plot for a while now, and finally twigged to how close the feeling I was aiming for was to Leslie Fish's ode to the shipbuilders and Mission Control crew of Apollo...
Lying In
A song about lazy mornings, especially in winter. It came to me on such a morning, naturally.
Fax Paladin, Houston
