I’m typing this on my favorite laptop of all time. And I’ve used a lot of laptops. It’s a Lenovo Thinkpad. It looks just like a Thinkpad – matte black on the outside, lots of ports, best-in-class keyboard, same as it ever was. This is probably the 10th or 12th Thinkpad that I’ve owned and…
Click here for my 2025 Top Ten playlist. The wheel is turning. I’m 71 years old. Every future day lived is a day that has passed. Today is a fleeting moment with a challenge to find meaning and beauty. That’s not me, I don’t talk like that, it’s the title of a Moody Blues album. It made…
Philip K Dick’s first published novel was Solar Lottery in 1955. It was a thirty five cent Ace paperback. If you flip the book over, there’s no back cover, there’s a different front cover, and it’s upside down. When you turn it right side up, it’s a novel by Leigh Brackett, The Big Jump. Solar Lottery and The Big Jump –…
The most valuable book in my collection is a copy of Neuromancer published in 1986 by Phantasia Press. Only 375 numbered copies were signed by the author, bound with gold endpapers, in a white cloth slipcase. It’s tough to find but there are two copies on Abebooks right now, one for $6,500, the other for $8,000. The enduring cultural…