I got a misaddressed email from someone this morning. Here’s the exchange so far: Me: Hello, I’m not the person you are trying to reach. Please check your “To” addresses. Best, Joshua H. McGee W.W.: Thank you so much. Sorry about that! … And then W.W. forwarded me a copy of it. Me: Nope, still [...] Read more »
Short Story (age 15)
I found a short story I wrote, longhand, when I was fifteen years old. Rex woke me this morning. One moment I was asleep, dreaming that a crate of oranges had just been delivered to my door, and the next moment I was awakened by friendly snorts and whines coming from the speaker on my [...] Read more »
Beckhams and Riffs and Persians (oh my!)
1. I think I won line of the night while out to dinner with Bob Mike. Joshua: The tasting notes on this beer include “A whirlwind of fruit and spice.” Bob Mike: That’s one of the lesser-known Dune novels. Joshua: Actually, I think it’s a magazine article about David and Victoria Beckham. 2. Can anyone [...] Read more »
Kids-these-days-with-their…
I often hear (or read) people opine that pre-teens and teens today have a wealth of information resources that “we” (with a vague referent) would have loved. And I often hear people bemoan and bewail the loss of erudition in communication between “today’s youth”. But something is often missed, I think. We all — any [...] Read more »
Sherlock
Has everyone watched the three episodes of “Sherlock”, the new, modern-day-set, Steven-Moffat-reimagined (!) version of Sherlock Holmes? I have loved it. I am one of those insufferable Holmes purists, and do not withhold my words against interpretations I dislike (I hated, and railed about, the Guy Ritchie, for instance). But this interpretation has been marvelous. [...] Read more »
Ten. Years. Of. Blogging.
Whoops! Missed the anniversary by five days, but the ten year anniversary of the mcgees.org blog was on 15 December (mcgees.org itself predates this by almost a year, and my first personal website by five years.) In that inaugural post I had to define for people what a “blog” was, how it worked, and indeed [...] Read more »
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