Lex Friedman, the force behind Lex.Games and Strategy, joins Scott to discuss “A Private Little War” (TOS S2E19). Topics include costumes (both tiny and ridiculous), when everyone gets their wigs at ...

Just the other day I was blogging about our first year in Portland and now our children seem to have turned 7 years old. This seems impossible, but I’m told it is true. They are crazy little dudes …

Time and space. They sure are funny things, huh? Several years ago, when we were telling people that we were going to have kids we often heard, “The days feel like years and the years feel like day…

Many years ago I visited my in-laws’ and admired their next door neighbor’s fiberglass crab. It stood guard under their deck and it delighted me. Over the years that crab remained. Exposed to the w…

Yesterday was a banner day in my life as a homeowner (yes, we bought a house in Portland, Oregon! I need to write a post about that too): I mowed a lawn for the first time. And installed a ceiling …

Another month, another list of books! A lot is going on in the world (both my own local world and the world in general). I’ve been tempted to blog very often, and yet I didn’t. Seems li…

The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi ★★★★☆ (Read on Jan 31, 2026) – Scalzi is very successful, though I have found his last few novels to be pretty underwhelming. This is a return to form for …

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I (and my entire family) was sick for roughly 50% of December. Some of us are still shaking off the impacts! I did, however, manage to do a bunch of reading last month (so far this month has not be…