Fickle Ears

-I- Mid-quarantine sports media has gone nostagic out of necessity, with the recent Michael Jordan documentary leading the charge, and the...

One day as a high-schooler writing music on my Dad's PowerMac, I discovered that ConcertWare had a meter called "Free Time." T...

In my current situation I find the long-term rather than the short-term impacts of the quarantine most concerning, and perhaps for this reas...

"As against a single person who could use a brush passably, there were thousands who could take reasonably good photographs. Here the f...

[244]I would distinguish myself from a superstitious man, therefore, as follows: I do not believe that an event not caused in any way by my ...

"As with printing, photography did not altogether do away with the possibilities of human choice; but to justify their productions as a...

"...by perfecting a mechanical method, the "taking of pictures" by a mere registration of sensations was democratized. ... Wh...

"In the case of photography...there was for long a question as to whether it was or was not art. And the answer to that question is: Is...

On December 31, 2009 I was living in the Central Time Zone, which means that this post from Way Out West comes as I enjoy a two hour bonus t...

Sports have never been more fully integrated with the wider entertainment industry than they are right now, and neither have I, but I find, ...

I’m someone who needs deadlines, and who for that reason finds the moment itself painful and anti-climactic. I feel acutely the truism that,...

Just like music, what started as an activity became an obsession. When I first started playing Scrabble online, I set the racks to display...

"Each art has its technical side...what would often be, were it not for the ultimate end of the process, sheer monotony and drudgery. B...

"In some sense, man must forgo his purely personal preference and submit to the machine before he can achieve good results in the limit...

"...this recognition of the human importance of technics was indeed one of the radical discoveries of modern times...[Bacon] proposed t...

"We ordinarily use the word technology to describe both the field of the practical arts and the systematic study of their operations an...

If the acronym STEM once found merely prosaic use, it now by its mere existence and invocation encapsulates quite neatly the territory which...

"Order of any kind gives man a sense of security: it is the changeful, the unexpected, the capricious, in other words the unpredictable...

Since I first posted a recipe here, I've made peace with cheese, re-upped on eggs, and scheduled meat once every other week, but there a...

"...until recently we have taken for granted that, since we ourselves live in a Machine Age and boast of that fact, every other age was...

"What my friend Matthew Nowicki used to say about architecture--that a great client was essential in the production of a great building...

"Our power and knowledge, our scientific discoveries and our technical achievements, have all been running wild because Western man tur...