I Heard A Computer Scientist The Other

The World Is So Huge That People Are Always Getting Lost In It. There Are Too Many Ideas And Things And People Too Many Directions To Go. I Was Starting To Believe That The Reason It Matters To Care Passionately About Something Is That It Whittles The World Down To A More Manageable Size. It Makes The World Seem Not Huge And Empty But Full Of Possibility.

Writers Like To Write, And Writing In Different Forms - Short, Long, Bite-sized, Done On The Fly, Done With Painstaking Attention - All Interest Me.

You Could Go Crazy Thinking Of How Unprivate Our Lives Really Are - The Omnipresent Security Cameras, The Tracking Data On Our Very Smart Phones, The Porous State Of Our Internet Selves, The Trail Of Electronic Crumbs We Leave Every Day.

States Should Pass Laws Making It Illegal To Own Or Trade Wild Animals; The Phony 'educational' Permits That Many Private Owners Have Used To Skirt Those Laws Should Be Eliminated.

The Thing Is, I Have A Zillion Apps, And I'm Always Looking For The Perfect Arrangement For Them, So Scrambling My Home Screen Is Part Of That Eternal Quest.