You’re walking down a hallway. It’s your hallway. The one in your basement, only the mudroom bit at the far end has been eliminated or flattened out. It’s just a long straight hallway. And you’re walking down from one end to the other, urgently. Only the hallway never gets any shorter. You never actually advance. […]
We are driving: A. and H. and I. A. is driving, I am in the back seat with H. We see lights flashing in the rearview. Blue lights flashing. The police? A. pulls over. It is not the police, it is a Domino’s Pizza Delivery Guy. Who gave him the authority to pull us over? […]
You are back home (???) on the St. Mary’s campus, only the sense of scale has changed. Has the campus grown? Have you shrunk to minuscule proportions? You are back for a new semester and though you have moved in to your new room, you have not been back there in… weeks? You have been […]
Someone shows me their copy of Infinite Jest. It is a new edition. An annotated edition? An expanded edition. An edition where the main narrative content is intact, but where the footnotes endnotes have been augmented. There are additional notes. Expanded notes. A glossary. Graphs and charts. Tables and figures. Maps and diagrams. An all […]
H. had a dream 1 last night. He told it to us this morning, and it went a bit like this: Me and Mommy and Daddy and Carl Sagan were in a museum looking at owl bones. And then we went to the hospital because Mommy was sick. And Carl Sagan was making us dinner […]
Pair programming with the characters from the book I’m writing. (Spoiler alert: Cole sucks at Groovy.)
They tell that you’re crazy. That there’s no such thing. That you’ve been watching too many scifi horror movies. You couldn’t have seen such a creature skittering across the floor. They don’t exist. You couldn’t have seen such a thing eviscerate that man. Impossible. They assign an investigator to the case just the same. (After […]
Like children, living under your parents’ roof, but grown. Fully grown. But bouncing off the walls in this just-moved-into house. The house itself is largely long and straight, with many one-or-two-steps up or down into adjacent rooms, like it has been added onto haphazardly, and repeatedly. The house is empty except for you and your […]
I am stuck in a recursive Geb functional test closure.
The Company has been bought by (of all things) a smaller nimbler company that specializes in software for financial organizations. The Founders are kept on, but most of the staff is phased out, transferred to other subsidiaries, or else out-and-out fired. I am one of the lucky handful 1 that is kept and integrated with […]