S.A. Barton's Blog

I’m noticing an aspect of the discussion around autonomous cars that’s a little unsettling because it underlines an attitude I’m struggling to come to grips with in my own beady little mind. Devil’s advocacy without a strong focus on solutions. Look, we don’t always have solutions. We do need critical voices to point out flaws... Continue Reading →

A video is worth ten thousand words. Advertisements

…so I’m going to put a picture up on the fridge. Cuinn is 5. Advertisements

(Why am I posting on this particular subject? because maybe other people in total hip replacements will find it helpful. Because my hip is fake as vox day.) I have only skimmed a few of the articles this search turned up, but I think I found the most useful information about how to increase the […]

… that aliens, apparently, live among us. Advertisements

And unseasonably deep and cold Illinois, too. While we’ve been visiting family this last month, it has been more like December than November. I haven’t gotten this much cold and snow all at once since my family left Wisconsin when I was 11. It has been a nice walk down nostalgia lane, and great fun […]

Just tweeting to them is assigning all rights to your content in perpetuity.WHAT THE FUCK? NO!! Seriously, I'm blocking them now, because what if I get in a conversation and they're buried in the @ chain stealing my shit? I don't even think they could defend this in court. pic.twitter.com/qrEwnaBuDo — S.A. "C'mon, Do the […]

5/5 The GOP learned their current scorched Earth, kill the other party tactics BY WATCHING SOVIETS. You become what you hate if you embrace the methods of those you hate. The GOP leadership has become what they hated. Let's not follow them to Hell. Let's win as humans. — S.A. "C'mon, Do the Science Fiction" […]

…at the old homestead. Hard to find a quiet moment. Advertisements

What do we have here? Opportunity for both whale prosperity and human fatness. Check it out: Dear Japan: What if you started spending all this whaling effort on growing cultured whale meat from cell samples?You could get the samples by participating in studies designed to help whale populations prosper AND eat all the whale meat […]