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goMe:
A retired software designer with many and diverse interests: science, science fiction, storytelling, software design, baseball, mathematics, quantum physics, craft beers, conversation, computer-generated images, and dogs. Love’m all, but dogs are extra special.
Blog:
I have a still-active blog Logos con Carne (hosted by WordPress) and have been posting there since 2011. As a blogger, I write about what interests me, and — as just mentioned — my interests are diverse. Supposedly, one key to success in blogging is focusing on a single topic, and it seems I can’t help but do it wrong. I’ll likely make the same mistake here. Speaking of which…
This:
Blog number six on blogging platform number four. New to Substack but not to blogging or generating content for the Interweb. If anything, starting to find it old and less interesting than it used to be. Perhaps the new platform and fresh start will invigorate the blood again. (At my age, the blood can always use a little fizz!)
As to content, I so far have five newsletters here:
Logos con Carne: the publication subscription home.
My Best Guess: opinion pieces, usually about science.
Biblio Victuals: posts about fiction and storytelling.
Math Musings: posts about mathematics.
Quantum Curious: posts about quantum physics.
Which gives you some idea of what I’m writing about here. I’m thinking of adding a sixth just to even out the Newsletters page.
If you subscribe to Logos con Carne, you can turn off newsletters 2–5 if the topics aren’t of interest by accessing your account page:
https://logosconcarne.substack.com/account
The main channel (#1 above) cannot be turned off, so I reserve it for posts I want all my subscribers to see.
Why:
Well, that’s the $64,000 question, isn’t it. And, quite to the contrary of the advice to “never ask why”, we should always be willing to put on the brakes and ask “Why?” Our curiosity and desire to understand are a huge part of what makes us human.
My answer for now: “Why not?”
No? Okay, well, my online friend Tina moved her blog from WordPress to here, and I started by just subscribing to her new blog but ended up joining Substack. And having joined, why not use the platform? Or at least explore using the platform.
So:
Here we go. I published 50 posts in 2024, so it looks as if I’m here to stay.
BTW:
I also have a largely ignored blog, The Hard-Core Coder, that does focus on a single topic: software design, writing code. But I’ve never managed to produce much content there. As much as I love coding, it turns out I don’t love writing about it as much as I thought I would.
And I have a YouTube channel (for which I produce even less content).
See you around!
