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Forgive me, it's been a while. Not that there's nothing to say, just that I've been saying it other places.  The long nights of winter are perfect for setting one's mind to a novel. Sadly, the slow churning up there, or rather, the distracted tumbling, has watched winter turn to spring and said novel is maybe a third of the way. Maybe.  This is the battle in the attention economy. How do we get our thoughts back?  There have been several changes over here at Wake Blake galactic headquarters.  First, our entire information technology infrastructure was rebuilt (we got a new phone), leading to the usual (un)expected total loss of everything. So we have new graphics on the blog. Yes, they were created with an AI boost. Why? Because as bad as the AIpocalypse might be, it's fun to watch them hallucinate up new-ish stuff. Second, the publisher/editor/writer has taken up with the saints/scoundrels in o...

As a Gen Xer, I’ve been sold a steady diet of Boomer crap since I was born. At this point, I know more about Boomer pop culture than I do Gen X pop culture. All the classics — the classic bands, the classic movies — everything from the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s — that’s all Boomer shit. Gen X basically got one decade, the ’90s. Boomers have The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Monkees, The Kinks, The Who, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jackson Browne, The Eagles, Michael Jackson, Wham!, The Cure, even R.E.M.  Gen X has Nirvana. And Beyoncé. The one place that Gen Xers have excelled is making tech billionaires. We have Sergey and Bezos, Musk, and Jack Dorsey — and a bunch of other guys, mostly guys. Boomers have, like, Larry Ellison, some Waltons who inherited stuff, some Mars people who inherited stuff, and I don’t know — is Bloomberg a Boomer? He might be older than a Boomer.  Millennials are doing all right on th...