Blog &Tech Eugene Fischer | 25 Jul 2010
Driving down the highway yesterday I passed a man riding a sufficiently unusual device that I pulled my car off the road and walked back along the shoulder to investigate. The man turned out to be John MacTaggart, the CEO of Pterosail Trike Systems, and he is in the process of riding one of his company’s [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 09 Jun 2010
My parents recently had the carpet on the second floor of their house replaced. My father’s office is up there, historically a dense and chaotic ecosystem of files and books and four decades of computer electronics. All of this had to be temporarily clearcut for the carpet to be changed, and as my father reconstitutes [...]
Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 27 Jan 2010
Rabbit Hole Day 2010 has nearly been and gone without my doing anything to recognize it. Too many distractions this year. But this seems a fine time to collect in one place the Twitter and Facebook messages I churned out a year ago today. MICROBLOGGING RABBIT HOLE DAY 2009 Jan. 26, 11:42 pm: Oh hell. [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 09 Dec 2009
Days 32 through 34 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering a portion of her travels through Normandy. (Previously: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7.) Paris to Rouen Sat. July 25 [1936] At 9:30 this morning we said our farewells to Kay & Charlotte & [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 28 Nov 2009
For months now this ad has been reliably showing up on my Facebook profile. Who is that supposed to be a cartoon of? It looks to me vaguely like Edgar Allen Poe.
Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 27 Nov 2009
There is an interesting article on The Language Log about a particular type of misnegation that, until it was presented to me in a context that said, “this is wrong,” I was unable to see the problem with. It has to do with phrases of the type No NOUN is too ADJECTIVE to VERB. For [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 08 Nov 2009
Days 28 through 31 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering her time spent in Paris. (Previously: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.) Paris, Tuesday July 21, 1936 We left Brussels this morning at eight for a short train ride to Paris. Our first view of Paris [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 07 Nov 2009
And it was quite nice there. I went to my first World Fantasy convention, got to spend time with many friends, old and new, and see some very beautiful things. It was a long trip, and I was more invested in living in the moment than noting down what I was doing, so I don’t [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 28 Oct 2009
“In some crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1947
Blog Eugene Fischer | 22 Oct 2009
It’s kind of appropriate that I’ve stayed in bed sick all day. Today is the 1-year anniversary of one of the most astoundingly terrible days I’ve ever had. I know, because it was so awful that the last thing I did before I went to bed that night was post about it on Facebook, for [...]
