“Celebrate while you still can Cause any second it may end . . .” – Oingo Boingo, No One Lives Forever Jim Rowson passed away peacefully on December 26, 2024 at age 70 from fucking cancer. (That was his term for it, and the fucking cancer deserved the abuse, the sneaky bastard.) He was a visionary…
Spotify Wrapped, King Gizzard, and the year’s best songs Spotify Wrapped kinda sucked in 2024, missing a bunch of the cool info from previous years about genres and favorite albums and more. Did you notice? Spotify ended 2023 with massive layoffs, including Scott Macdonald, the person whose insights about data analysis and genres was apparently…
Remember browser home pages? You do? I wouldn’t have guessed, you must be older than you look. All the rest of you children, gather round the fire, let me take you back to a simpler time when we still said “World Wide Web” and you could hear the capital letters. In the early days of…
The Avatar Murders received a starred review from IndieReader. “Jim Rowson’s THE AVATAR MURDERS is a winning combination of classic noir and hard sci-fi. Augmented reality is already appearing in everyday life, so its use here is surprisingly grounding; none of the uses in THE AVATAR MURDERS seem far out of reach. A society built on…