Timothy RiceAboutNowEssaysBook ReviewsEssaysOverpopulation Apocalypse - Yesterday’s Fears and Today’s RealitiesSend Your Friends Birthday Cards - It’s easy and they love it.2023 Retrospective - Definitely better than 2022Understanding the Cash Gift Taboo - Dollars vs. SenseBook ReviewsThe Martian - I guess you could call it a ‘failure’, but I prefer the term ‘learning experience’.Sharpen This - When sharpening skills started vanishing from the population we began to think it was difficult.A Fire Upon the Deep - Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all–no one’s around to write horror stories.Lent - Prophecy is only sometimes helpful.