Human Weapon on the History Channel
The History Channel’s new show, Human Weapon, combines three things I enjoy: martial arts, history and physics. The show takes Jason Chambers, a Mixed Martial Arts fighter, and Bill Duff, a wrestler and former...
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Every family has a Harry Potter story…
The Internet is teeming this week with stories of Harry Potter spoilers, Harry Potter predictions, even claims that Harry Potter has not influenced literacy (a claim eloquently refuted by my friend Paul Levinson). While...
my book at The Bleep Store
My novel, Dusk Before the Dawn, is now available at The Bleep Store. The Bleep Store is brought to you by the same folks who produced the classic movie, What the Bleep Do We...
bookrev: Dragons of the Dwarven Depths by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The Lost Chronicles Volume 1 3 stars: A nice read, but needs intro summary and a couple of plot problems fixed Even though I have read many of R.A. Salvatore’s novels (the other Wizards...
One month of Taiji and five years of Karate under my belts
My novel, Dusk Before the Dawn, has characters whose daily rituals involve martial arts training. My son and I trained and studied Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan (a Korean martial art) for five...
bookrev: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
Ultimate Kudos: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and deservedly so World War II has always held a fascination for me: the global scale, the impact on world politics and powers of today, the coming...
Live Earth. Huh?
As a music spectacle, it was pretty spectacular. But as a rallying cry and mustering of political might, I question if Live Earth actually made things better or worse. These types of “benefit concerts”...
Tobias Buckell and me on Adventures in SciFi Publishing
Shaun Farrell has an excellent podcast called Adventures in SciFi Publishing. He has had many of my favorite authors on his podcast, has editors and publishers as well. It is well executed and quite...
Ice Road Truckers on The History Channel
Maybe it’s because it is getting awfully close to 100 degrees in Texas. Maybe it’s because of the 40 days of rain. Whatever the reason, my family and I are hooked on Ice Road...
Transferring info through bones: security? disruption?
Rice University here in Houston announced an interesting research project and technology called “OsteoConduct: Musculo-Skeletal Conduction for Secure Data Communication“, transferring sound waves through bones. The project is has been awarded funding from Microsoft...