No maps for these territories

I am working on — by which I mean idly thinking about, deciding it’s too hard, and going back to doing something else like building an awesome open-source metropolis(1) — a list of things to do in the new year: * books to read * projects to work on the first stages of starting * [...]

So my mild grumpiness when I got home from work today (who, me? NEVAR) was completely obliterated by the fact that my mail, which had been held since the 19th and was finally delivered today, contained no fewer than EIGHT xmas and new year’s cards. Thanks, y’all! It also contained two netflix movies, which nicely [...]

Last night I dreamed that I was writing two books and doing the research for them, including a vivid image of me dressed in work clothes, lying in the grass of a college somewhere reading a heavy history book. It was a Harvard University Press imprint, I think, but I do not know the content. [...]