January 1, 2000 The Y2K bug does not result in airplanes falling from the sky, stock markets crashing, or nuclear missiles launching on their own. Pundits decry the wasteful spending of billions to ensure nothing significant happened. IT departments worldwide sputter in bewilderment. “But! But!” October, 2000 I come out to a few select friends and […]
Monthly Archives:: December 2009
Mount Pleasant burns down… again.
I just got back from Kingsway and Broadway, the scene of the latest highly suspicious fire in Mount Pleasant. For now, I’ve uploaded a Flickr set–tags to follow shortly. With typical Vancouver cynicism, consensus among most of the bystanders (also, news media, city workers, firefighters, etc.) seemed to be that the soon-to-be-constructed condo towers at […]
Better living through labels
“Your family just moves from one crisis to another,” my therapist said. As an introverted, queer teenager, I’d been forced to talk to a pretty long list of psychologists and psychiatrists. Despite this, I’d certainly had never heard one make a lot of sense before. Psychotic fundamentalist bullshit, certainly, but an accurate observation? I was […]
Sure, we can put a man on the moon, but we can’t put–oh, right.
I’m skeptical of the usefulness of manned spaceflight, even as I believe in its long-term necessity. (Besides, should it be necessary for humans to leave Earth, we could get that going on fairly short order. The technology’s straightforward, even if we don’t have interplanetary ships today.) I was born almost a decade after the last time […]