Pete BrownI have my complaints about The Last Jedi, but its treatment of Luke Skywalker is not one of them.WARNING: Spoilers ahead. If you have not seen The Last Jedi, proceed at your own risk.Jan 3, 20181Jan 3, 20181
Pete BrownThe Ewoks did not ruin Star Wars.Slate’s Jamelle Bouie posted his ranking of the Star Wars films recently on Twitter:Jan 2, 2018Jan 2, 2018
Pete Brown”There is no such thing as labor-saving technology.”A few days ago, I was listening to the new album from Orchestral Manoeuvers In the Dark album (which is quite good). On track #4…Sep 4, 20171Sep 4, 20171
Pete BrownThinking about behavior management and performance evaluationsA friend of mine posted a link on Facebook yesterday to an op-ed piece in the Washington Post by Katie Hurley about the perniciousness of…Sep 1, 2017Sep 1, 2017
Pete BrownIt’s not the technology. It’s the scale.I was reading a Wall Street Journal article about the fact that if Tesla meets its sales targets, there will not be enough charging…Aug 7, 2017Aug 7, 2017
Pete BrownTrump’s Face The Nation interviewI read through the transcript of Trump’s appearance on Face The Nation. There went ten minutes of my life that I will never get back.May 9, 2017May 9, 2017
Pete BrownResisting Trump and the Republicans is just work.Some years ago, I attended a work-mandated multi-day scrum/agile training course. It was almost entirely useless and I let the…Jan 7, 2017Jan 7, 2017
Pete BrownEmma Cline’s The GirlsI finished Emma Cline’s The Girls a few days ago. It was good, but not great. The story of a Manson-like cult, culminating in an analog of…Jan 2, 2017Jan 2, 2017
Pete BrownLast night, I wrote a letter for the first time in ages.When I was eleven years old, my parents informed me that my Christmas gift to my grandmother would be to write her a letter every month for…Dec 30, 2016Dec 30, 2016
Pete BrownI do not understand the need to lecture people about the proper way to mourn and grieve.Death does not have any inherent meaning, either in a general sense or the death of a particular person. People are just dead. How we…Dec 29, 2016Dec 29, 2016
