An IKE cup of coffee
I definitely enjoy a morning cup of joe, but still without power going into the 5th day after Hurricane Ike, I think I may have taken more steps than normal. – I filled the...
Author: Larry
Ike 1, Tomballians 1
Sitting here in the dark, reading by candlelight (and typing on my blackberry) and drinking some white wine (we have to, of course, because the power is out)… …With my family. …In my house....
Dem hurricanes is humblin’
Insert your fav weatherman joke here…man cannot accurately predict the weather or the future. We are about to create black holes, and maybe Higgs bosons at the LHC in CERN, Switzerland…but we cannot tell...
SF Signal Mind Meld
Along with the beautiful people (Mary Robinette Kowal, Charles Stross, Lou Anders), SF Signal has posted my response to their question on reading stories counter to one’s own position: Q: As a reader, can...
FCC deregulation ensures that we all really can’t get along
My son comes home from his high school government class (AP, his father adds with pride) talking about how the VP candidates were both picked and sent out as “bulldogs” or attack dogs, given...
bookrev: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn is the fourth and supposedly concluding book in the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. The book still provides the same mix of teenage lust and supernatural suspense, but this time sex, marriage,...
bookrev: Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
A welcome break from the barrage of convention and election news, Boomsday is satire at its finest, featuring not only a headline grabbing idea on how to salvage the social security system, but a...
bookrev: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse, the third book in Ms. Meyer’s Twilight series, escalates the human-vampire-werewolf triangle, and provides deeper background on the werewolf legends, vampire armies and the ever-present threats of Victoria and the Volturi. As with...
New Winner in the Paperback Doorstop Sweepstakes
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson has been my previous thickest paperback book (or book that I would most use as a doorstop, a step-ladder or a replacement for a bookend). At more than 1,150 pages...
David Byrne and Brian Eno together again
The Talking Head’s live album “Stop Making Sense” was the staple at our Rugby games, the tunes that got us jazzed up to play. The movie of “Stop Making Sense” (cue the visual of...