The Thinking Man’s Guide to the End of the World
With the end of the Mayan calendar looming in a scant five years (December 21, 2012 give or take), there is a seeming increase of talk, movies, articles and general water cooler chatter about...
Author: Larry
First tai chi tournament
It was a long week. Trying to close partnerships and/or sales at the end of the year is work I would wish on no friend and only on a few enemies (you know who...
Guest bookrev at SF Signal: 2012 by Whitley Strieber
Those wonderful gents in their typing machines at SF Signal invited me to guest review the novel 2012: The War for Souls by Whitley Strieber. Give it a read, and check out their SF...
Tech article in the December Global Intelligencer
In the December Global Intelligencer, I’ve got an article which takes everyday items like cell phones and TVs and equates them to the theoretical physics of the Standard Model and the Grand Unified Theory....
Rockets 07-08: Inconsistent first quarter of the season
Win 3, Lose 1, Win 3, Lose 6, Win 3, Lose 2, Win 2 (aw, heck, there goes that consistency), Lose 1…. At 11-10, 21 games into an 82-game season, the Rockets have shown...
bookrev: The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock
Sherlock Holmes meets Moorcock’s multiverse A detective that can travel the multiverse, the constant struggle between Law and Chaos, the Albino, blimps/dirigibles, rail travel and electric cars (with no oil). Plus guest appearances by...
You readers is smart
Thanks to a post on spyscribbler’s blog, I now know how really smart you guys is. It just goes to show what a few good words about Rugby, basketball, beer and my wife will...
My book reviewed at Logical Misanthropy
Ty over at Logical Misanthropy (great name!) gives a “mini-review” of Dusk Before the Dawn: A fascinating mixture of mysticism, nanotechnology and martial arts. The book reminded me a bit of King’s “The Stand,”...
geek job #19: “Acquiring” beer for developers
I know without a doubt the motivation of the gent who purloined 450 kegs of beer from the Guinness Brewery in Dublin. The old myth is that whenever you want to get a technical...
geek job #3: fixing Galactica and Pegasus’ computers
With all of the retro cool analog phone sets and other low-tech gear on Battlestar Galactica, FTL (faster than light) drive not withstanding I was beginning to get the impression that the whole thing...