Recently watched: A trio of films from John Carpenter on the Criterion Channel: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Vampires (1998), Ghosts of Mars (2001). Went to the movies on cheap night and saw One Battle After Another (2025).

Books: Recently finished A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick, which I really enjoyed. There were a few twists that I did not see coming. Working my way through The Place of Dead Roads by William Burroughs.

I think that more people need to realise that we have to do the hard work ourselves. There is a tendency to assume that we can rely on reality to do the job for us. That if there are people who talk nonsense, who support illogical policies, who ignore the facts, sooner or later, reality will wreak vengeance on them. And this is not the way that history works.

Yuval Noah Harari, quoted in The Guardian on 04 Oct 2025.

Working out a few technical glitches.

We’ve been home a week from a three week trip to Europe. Sleep schedule is mostly back to normal. Next week I’m dropping my son off at college for the first time. Two weeks after that I’m back to work. Quite a summer.

We got home from a two week trip to Minnesota and the UP. It takes me a few days to readjust to being home. Each summer it seems like there is so much time, and then I never seem to do much with it. Except a few weeks of travel. Which I guess is something.