book signing October 20 at Trinity University Alumni week
Last year I was invited to be a part of the Trinity University Alumni Book Signing that occurs during alumni week. I have been invited back again this year; the event is October 20...
Author: Larry
bookrev: Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell
Entertaining and thought-provoking…all between the same two covers! Reader’s read with many motivations. Sometimes you read for entertainment, for the plot; sometimes to be intellectually stimulated (big words), for the ideas. When I want...
I should be able to run a 5K, shouldn’t I???
My industrious wife formed a team to walk in the Komen Race for the Cure in Houston October 6. The team name is “Komen Get It”….catchy, eh? Somehow (as usually happens) I got talked...
bookrev: Here, There & Everywhere by Chris Roberson
Enjoyable trips through history, the multi-verse and a woman’s mind After reading several history and general fiction books (mostly due to commitments to read ARCs), I was desperate to get back to the escapism...
Ice Road Truckers – The Final Episode
I’m not sure what it was about this short (10 episode) series that entertained my family. It could have been any combination of: a locale, the Northwest Territories, that most of us have never...
Wiki-washers and grave-Digg-ers
By day, I masquerade as someone who knows a thing or two about digital security and identity. So when my friend and collegue Charles mentioned wikiscanner to me, my split personality showed: one side...
Bu, thanks for the memories
Bu, the 39-year old Rhino at the Houston Zoo, died of old age yesterday. My family and I have seen a lot of Bu over the years, through many trips to the Houston Zoo,...
Congrats and best of luck to Wushu Kung-Fu Fed team
The team from the school where I take Taichi, Wushu Kung-Fu Federation, won the team trophy at the recent combined Houston International Martial Arts Championship and USAWKF National Championships. I’ve seen the trophy, but...
bookrev: The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson
Volume Two of the Liberation Trilogy (from the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 to the fall of Rome just before D-Day, June 1944) (review of Advanced Reader Copy) Another triumphant book from the...
Nanotechnology and Harry Potter
An excellent letter from Dr. Andrew D. Maynard, Chief Science Advisor, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies to Mr. Arthur Weasley of Harry Potter fame: Nanotechnology is not magic, but it sometimes looks like magic. For...