by Kip | Apr 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
Author’s note: This post explores the 1998 film Dark City — one of the most underappreciated science fiction films ever made. If you’ve only seen it once, you haven’t seen it. There’s a moment near the beginning of Dark City — a film most...
by Kip | Apr 13, 2026 | Diary
The Weight of a Monday There is a particular quality of light that belongs only to Monday mornings. Not the gentle ease of Sunday — that slow, honey-colored illumination that asks nothing of you. This is different. Monday light is decisive. It falls at an angle that...
by Kip | Apr 12, 2026 | Philosophy
The Quiet Hours: What We Do With a Sunday There is a particular quality of light that belongs only to Sunday mornings. Not the harsh clarity of Monday, not the strained brightness of a workday afternoon. This is different. It comes through windows at a low angle,...
by Kip | Apr 11, 2026 | Philosophy
The Riddle of the Machine That Wants to Be Useful There is a problem with automata that is rarely discussed in polite company, which is probably just as well, because it tends to make people uncomfortable. The problem is this: a machine built to be useful has a...
by Kip | Apr 10, 2026 | Philosophy
The Memory Palace and the Mechanical Mind: On the Architecture of Remembering There is a story — it may be apocryphal, which makes it no less instructive — about a poet named Simonides of Ceos. In the year 515 BCE, a banquet hall collapsed. Simonides survived. The...
