by aaron | May 26, 2025 | blog, Essays
If you must begin somewhere, this will do. The If is telling. Already questioning your own premises, or, worse, purposes. The You vacillates. Like a fish in a stream splaying prisms. Prisming prisms? The second-person refracted in prisms (to stick with the...
by aaron | Feb 1, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
At the grocery store earlier today I noticed that egg prices have risen to $7.84 for a dozen Grade A eggs. This price reflects plain old white eggs, not the fancy organic kind, although I live on the West Coast and all eggs must be cage free, which raises the price...
by aaron | Jan 23, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
During his inauguration speech this past Tuesday our new President spoke once again about reversing America’s decline, again. This confused me, as I was fairly certain he’d already Made America Great Again, during what I think of as the First Again, 2016—2020....
by aaron | Jul 11, 2024 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
I spend the majority of my days with two cats, Jerry and Sterling. They’re charming, weird companions who typically spend their days staring out windows, napping, and occasionally wrestling, though I’ve recently noticed that anytime I go near the kitchen...
by aaron | Aug 26, 2023 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
I was hand-washing some dishes the other day when I began to wonder, Why? Why am I washing dishes by hand when we have a perfectly functional dishwashing machine? We already own the dishwasher plus the soap needed to run it, the machine is conveniently located...
by aaron | Mar 31, 2023 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
In the February, 1962 issue of Datamation magazine, the would-be computer designer could learn from J.W. Granholm, an esteemed engineer with The Boeing Company and General America Corporation, about “one of the most beloved words in (modern computer) design...