Apr 8, 2025 | books, bruceb
We’re going to dive down a rabbit hole into the world of collecting Lewis Carroll books. You know the phrase “going down a rabbit hole” comes from Alice In Wonderland, right? Book collecting has been called “a gentle madness.” Maybe you’ve known a collector –...
Apr 1, 2025 | books, bruceb
On July 18, 1874, Lewis Carroll was on a morning walk when a sentence popped into his head: “For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.” That thought led to one of the greatest works of English literature that you’ve never heard of. It had been ten years since Alice’s...
Jan 28, 2025 | books, bruceb, news, Politics
I’m going to change what arrives in your mailbox in a very minor way. You don’t have to do anything except whitelist my emails when they get sent to junk mail. (Gmail sometimes sends them to “Promotions” for some reason.) Here’s the short version. I’m retired from...
Nov 12, 2024 | bruceb, glasses
These two photos look identical to me. What I see looks like the photo on the right. I have mild deuteranomaly – red-green colorblindness. Eight percent of men are red-green colorblind. (Almost no women. It’s a genetic thing.) It’s hard to describe, because my world...
Nov 2, 2023 | augmented reality, books, bruceb, virtual reality
Fear not! Bruce is still writing, now at arrgle.com. Read the articles, subscribe to the newsletter, buy the books! There’s a story behind the name “Arrgle.” In our books, the future belongs to Arrgle. Arrgle is a giant tech company. Thirty years...
