Another month of retroblogging

Once again I have spent my month sporadically picking over my giant pile of drafted posts. The retroblogging continues! (Previously.) Here are some new old posts that the RSS subscribers may have missed, including an entire series from the October Jaunt to Switzerland.

Photos from travel and everyday life:

• Tower of London Poppies
• Architectural juxtaposition
• The blue Eye
• Further idylls
• Cookie tree
• Skyrim or Switzerland?
• Frame of reference
• Mortal danger
• Honestly, Skyrim
• Acorn legs?
• When clouds touch down

Things I read or watched:

• Parasite
• Infinite Jest
• Ancillary Justice

Miscellaneous:

• Pi day
• Clickbait is sheer humbug

This post's theme word is guerdon, "a reward or recompense." (Also a transitive verb.) May these pointers to backdated historical posts provide their own guerdon.

Turncoat

"Turncoat" by Steve Rzasa.The prose begins a bit... dry? It made me think I don't really like short stories. Then the story picked up, and I remembered that I do like short stories (I just like long stories more, because there is more of them to like). I smiled at the mention of "Saint Kurzweil". The plot twist is entirely given away by the title --- lack of imagination there? or straightforward authorial titling, like artists who call their art "untitled study in blue #3"? --- and the conclusion was cute. Not terribly thought-provoking, but a fun little verbal romp in the world of uploaded-humans-and-AIs versus non-uploaded-humans.

If this were the first chapter of a book, I'd keep reading.


This post's theme word is adumbrate, "to foreshadow" or "to give a rough outline or to disclose partially" or "to overshadow or obscure." The monolexical title adumbrated the conclusion.