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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • I’m always reading one non-fiction book and one fiction book. It’s amazing how often I end up reading similar ones at the same time. Right now I’m reading Andy Weir’s The Martian, and Claire Nelson’s memoir Things I Learned from Falling. Both involve a person stuck alone, trying to survive by solving practical problems in an inhospitable desert environment.

    I had previously talked about reading Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore, and can now report that it’s an excellent book, highly recommend.





  • I like some body horror, but I’m really picky about it. I have zero desire to watch one human torture another. But something natural (or even supernatural) like a disease, an accident, or damage from a non-human life form, allows you to experience the horror of the frailty of the human body.

    We’re all going to die. We will all experience varying degrees of the degradation of our bodies. That’s scary. When we imagine a scenario, our brains change like they’ve actually experieced that scenario. That can make it easier to endure when they encounter a similar scenario in real life.