I love tornado videos. And here is one just getting ready to hatch.

Book Review up for Math and Cyberpunk legend @rudytheelder.bsky.social 's new super gonzo weird science fiction novel about brain-huffing inter-dimensional critters that constantly made me laugh.

I'm 88% done with Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day". It's been months. I don't worry l about the so-called plots. VERY "dirty!" I'm relishing the fab raps & arcane verbiage. Should be looking at an atlas as they carom around pre-WWII Balkans, maybe today.

(1) Why must Shampoo & Conditioner bottles be virtually indistingushiable, with tiny fonts, requiring temporary exit from shower for grasses. (2) Why must fruits & veggies have individualized bar codes, requiring surgical removal on tomatoes. I fear for grapes.

Christmas in California!

Merriment

Wonderful gnarl by Etienne Jacob and friends. Sort of like cellular automata, but the cells are moving. An overview here. bleuje.com/physarum-exp...

Maybe iterated, evolving autocomplete is how the vast tangles of neurons in brains ARE in fact trained, across individual and species time-scales. And machine learning schemas were just-so stories that made phuds pheel smart. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2023/12...

Holiday sale. www.rudyrucker.com/paintings

A second blog post, "Wondering." . I moved some of them over from yesteray's "Wandering", so you'll see some repetition at the start. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2025/12...

New blog post today with about thirty fab photos from the past five months. Comments on each photo. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/

Lovely outing to cut Xmas tree wit RR Jr fam. Tree was sliding off, and we made this fortunate stop to re=tie.

Reading Pynchon's immense & wondrous AGAINST THE DAY for ages. At 71% done, I find 1908 Tunguska event. My first collab with Bruce Sterling was a story on this, "Storming the Cosmos." You can hear Bruce read it here. www.rudyrucker.com/ruckersterli...

One of my more inspiring and out-there rants, my 4th introduction to the Princeton University Press edition of my INFINITY AND THE MIND. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2019/07...

Holiday special. SQINKS and SQINKS JOURNAL ebooks on sale at half price. books2read.com/sqink

Nice review of my new books SQINKS, and SQINKS JOURNAL, in Locus by Paul Di Filippo. locusmag.com/review/sqink...

What the heck it's Christmas in here.

New painting! Inspired by sunset at Moss Landing with Barb. I put in two seals to make it fun. I'm using the Japanese word for cute as the title. "Kawaii" Why not get this one for the holidays? www.rudyrucker.com/paintings

Great article by James Somers, "The Case That AI is Thinking." From November NEW YORKER. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is the type of photo that I call a "Rudy picture." Getting into the geometry of the world, but with some gnarly pattern in it as well. That bug-like nexus on the wire, yum.

Doing a zoom podcast tomorrow with David Agrnovff. 6 pm PST Dec 9. No password, open to all, and bring questions. Mostly we'll talk about new novel SQINKS. Name of the show is Dickheads Hangout, as Dave is a hug PKD fan. sfsu.zoom.us/j/8790030362...

My best-setters these days are the new SQINKS and the good old WARES TETRALOGY. I revamped the WARES page today. By the way, does anyone know where the Audible audiobook versions of the four novels went? They were GREAT. www.rudyrucker.com/wares/

I am the leaf man.

I-beams in our driveway. Also Venus and the Moon. Huge hassle, a retaining wall. But beautiful.

Streamed TITANIC with Barb last night and this morning. Kind of better than I remembered. Lovely romance. Amazing action. Cool tech backstory. Satisfying...what some might call A REAL movie.

Dig it! My driveway these days.

Yeah, baby.

Let's try it with tags. #art #artistsofbluesky #contemporaryart #modernart #abstract #abstractart #artlover #acrylicainting #painting #artwork #outsiderart #expressionism #abstractexpressionism

From 2 years ago. Free MIRRORSHADES! Weirdly this epic cyberpunk antho doesn't exist as an ebook. So we turned it into a free online webpage. Happy reading, and may ye wax gnarly and punk and dirty and ecstatic and intricate and all that good shit. Happy cybermonday. rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/

New paintings! www.rudyrucker.com/paintings

Kind of a cool VR song by Ben Kweller. Popknot. "Dollar Store" Album is "cover the mirrors." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Baseball & reel mower. By Barb Ash.

Streamed Linklater's biopic/drama NOUVELLE VAGUE: Jean Luc Godard making BREATHLESS in 1960. Then streamed Godard's BREATHLESS itself. Fun, all that Paris, & the big ideas, & Godard's aesthetic, and Belmondo so nihilist, & Jean Seberg lovely & awesome. Cool. And the Linklater is cute.

Out hiking with daughter Isabel yesterday.

I did a bit of a book launch for Skinks as part of a panel on Phillip K Dick at the San Francisco Library. Thanks to SF in SF and to David Gill for making it happen. Buy link: Books2Read.com/sqink

Just watched Laurel and Hardy in Sons of the Desert 1933. Great scene of the wives seeing the boys at the the Chicago convention, where they weren't supposed to be youtu.be/SVQHveBaBX8?...

SQINKS. A vintage Rudy Rucker rollercoaster: fresh ideas, big laughs, and high emotions. A novel about our new AI, set in today's San Francisco. A transreal cyberpunk love story! For sale everywhere. Books2Read.com/sqink

Rudy’s still unique. More so, even! Go for this: books2read.com/sqink

Relaxing after the weeks and months of SQINKS work. Watching 1930s movies. A James Whale trifecta. Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man. Great films.

And do watch my Sqnks trailer if you haven't seen it yet. youtu.be/yd7l4ZXGAu0?...

Relased today. SQINKS. Available everywhere. books2read.com/sqink

I'm in round table discussion of Philip K. Dick at downtown San Francisco Library, Sunday 23rd, 3-5. Hosted by SF in SF. With scholar David Gill, author David Agranoff, and publisher Jacob Weisman. I'll bring copies of my new novel SQINKS, out this week! Event info link: www.sfinsf.org?p=3027

I dreamed I used my Kickstarter money to take a trip to Alaska. I liked it there. Away from it all. I got in a taxi driven by Richard Kadrey, and we drove a couple of miles out on the ice. The light was wonderful. (Photo of Abbaotts Lagoon by Barb Ash, who plays Carol Cee in SQINKS.)

Dog dream.

Barb with gnarly lowrider at the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz.

Thinking back on my PhD in Set Theory, it's so funny. Set Theory is literally about nothing. See illo for INFINITY AND THE MND, drawn with Rapidograph pen in our Geneseo, NY, home, the very day I learned I was going to be fired from my first teaching job. But I knew infinity. So it didn't matter.

Great word: mojibake "the garbled or gibberish text from text being decoded by an unintended character encoding." Learned word while fixing mojibake in my 20-year-old Rudy's Blog with 1,200 posts, corrupted by recent a Word Press update. Rudy Jr saved the day. "You talkin' mojibake, dude."

Reading MOBY DICK today I came across a passage describing a jack-of-all-trades carpenger on the whaling ship...but I like to think of it as describing the way that an idealized creator might write or paint or photograph. In the groove

With Barb at the Los Gatos Halloween festival. Before that we watched the new Frankenstein in our big theater. A good day!