The inimitable Edward Gorey (b. February 22, 1925) illustrates Dracula.

Friday night food and drinks with friends from the old life at a Really
Good Sake Place was phenomenal, but I really can’t afford to go out like
that anymore.

I surprised myself by being too insecure to tell them so.

I hope this is not the reason I don’t really have friends anymore.

the anathema to this company!

Ran into a very cool couple yesterday at a coffee shop (not in our neighborhood, of course) who were very interested in L. Our friend immediately recognized them as a couple from a documentary that was nominated for Oscars a few years back (and didn’t win).

Ended up renting it on Amazon video – they were exactly the same in the movie as in real life. And he even had paint drops on his face.

I can only hope to be as cool as him when I’m in my 80s.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

After Escaping Boko Haram, Women and Girls Often Shunned at Home – Blue Nation Review

there’s so much about “traditional culture” (a.k.a. “honor culture”, a.k.a. patriarchy) that still needs to change.

scienceisbeauty:

Day & night

Via Giphy

Umberto Eco changed my life

Virtual Reality Companies Look to Science Fiction for Their Next Play

adafruit:

Via The New York Times

Tech companies have spent years developing better, cheaper devices to immerse people in digital worlds. Yet they are still figuring out how to make virtual reality the kind of technology that people cannot live without.

So for inspiration, they are turning to science fiction.

At Oculus, a leading virtual reality company, a copy of the popular sci-fi novel “Ready Player One” is handed out to new hires. Magic Leap, a secretive augmented reality start-up, has hired science fiction and fantasy writers. The name of Microsoft’s HoloLens headset is a salute to the holodeck, a simulation room from “Star Trek.”

“Like many other people working in the tech space, I’m not a creative person,” said Palmer Luckey, 23, a co-founder of Oculus, which was bought by Facebook for $2 billion in 2014. “It’s nice that science fiction exists because these are really creative people figuring out what the ultimate use of any technology might be. They come up with a lot of incredible ideas.”

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