Author: OTS

WordPress’s Jetpack is not a very good software package.

I am terrible at grocery shopping. I went to two different grocery stores to buy pasta sauce. Hours later with a full fridge and cabinets, guess what I don’t have.

Guess.

Achilles doesn’t die in the Iliad. He’s alive at the end, now the greatest of the Achaeans and therefore doomed. Yet he is alive. The deal with the heel, with his mother dipping him into the river Styx, none of that appears in Homer. It isn’t in the Iliad; it isn’t in the Odyssey.

It’s basically in the fanfiction.

The fremen has returned to Arrakis.

Dear United Airlines,

With all the pressure toward being a decent company today, it’s interesting to see you resisting peer pressure. Other companies occasionally try not to be terrible. You go your own way.

Congratulations.

My brother’s golden retriever is a beautiful, friendly dog.

She smells like feet, rotting food, and maybe death.

We see a choice between the country and the candidate on both sides. Right or left, whomever accepts their candidate is bad for the country will lose, but they’re the side doing their best for the country.

What’s good in the world?

Overpowered sports cars, winning arguments, and walking in the rain.

I won the argument about the rain and walked home in it. I like the rain, though, so it’s all good.

Copyright of individual stories and characters expires at the earliest time, not latest. So Sherlock Holmes the character hit the public domain before all of the Sherlock Holmes stories did.

Tolkien’s work will start bubbling into the public domain as soon as 2031. Considering he wrote the material to form cultural legends for the English speakers of the world, that sounds like a good thing. Considering how bad some adaptions are, that sounds like a bad thing.

I’m waiting out the healing-crystal fad so I can go back to collecting cool rocks in peace.