the other “me” was on the USS William M Wood
I have a very unique name. I thought I was the only one in the world. But I found out I assumed incorrectly in a very interesting way. About two years ago, I started getting...
Author: Larry
bookrev: A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Winner of the 1993 Hugo Vernor Vinge is in the list of SF/Fantasy novelists with the most Hugo/Nebula awards. Yet I had not yet read any of his works. This is my first; it...
Rockets best record in 2008 but still out of the playoffs
The Rockets have gone 17-3 since January 3, the best record from that date to the current All Star break. But with 30 games left in the regular season, in spite of that run...
geek job #11: Computer Jock for the LHC
The teams I’ve worked on have managed some incredibly large data centers. But I have some serious geek envy for the dudes running the computing and network infrastructure for CERN’s Large Haldron Collider. In...
Last Year we were at the Super Bowl
Contrary to popular belief, there are people who win contests, not just some made-for-TVcheering and screaming rubes. My wife is one of those people; last year she won the Burger King Bobble Head Bowl...
bookrev: The Silent Blade by R.A. Salvatore
Book XI in the Legend of Drizzt There are eighteen books in this series, and with that many pages a reader would expect to encounter two aspects: deeper characterizations and repetition. Both are on...
Rockets emerge, but not the ones we expected
After beating Portland on the road last night, the Rockets wake up to find themselves one game out of the playoff picture and a game and a half behind the 7th seed. They’ve won...
bookrev: Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell by David Michaels
Sometimes you just gotta run through a fun, throw down book, especially after some interesting but thick material. I’ve read almost all of Tom Clancy’s novels (they got kinda slow around Red Rabbit, never...
bookrev: Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos by Seth Lloyd
I’ve been reading this book for a while. Non-fiction books (except history books) always take me longer, as I like to check the facts, absorb the ideas…yeah, I know, it reminds some of you...