2011 goals: Q1 check-in
¶ by Rob FrieselAnother year, another batch of goals. Let’s see where we’ve landed three months into the year…
Author Archives: Rob Friesel
About Rob Friesel
Software engineer by day. Science fiction writer by night. Weekend homebrewer, beer educator at Black Flannel, and Certified Cicerone. Author of The PhantomJS Cookbook and a short story in Please Do Not Remove.search term haiku: March 2011
¶ by Rob Frieselnot octopodes consumerism drama coolest phone ever “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are haiku poems, I […]
haiku movie review: Inception
¶ by Rob FrieselInevitable (compare it to The Matrix) but so much better Seriously: the comparisons are inevitable 1, but Inception is hands-down the stronger film. And every time someone questions whether they were “awake or still dreaming,” I half expected Laurence Fishburne to walk out in those pinch-bridge sunglasses.[↩]
dream.20110330: the train
¶ by Rob FrieselWe are in our living room. It is ours, and yet I do not recognize this place, this cock-eyed curiosity of a room. Perhaps our living room from Barre – the floors certainly are reminiscent of that house – but it is bent and crooked. And a railroad runs through it. When we discover the […]
The Joy of Clojure (now in print!)
¶ by Rob FrieselThe Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser became available today. I had the good fortune of getting to read an early draft last year and got to provide some feedback. True to its title, the book is a joy to read and I do not know of many […]
dream.20110322: Futura
¶ by Rob FrieselJP[0], JP[1], JA, and I are all riding in JP[0]’s car on our way to a company-sponsored celebratory ski day at Stowe. (JA doesn’t want to be there; he never does; but he must come because he is up for an award.) Along the way, JP[0] stops for gas. While tanking up, I change all […]
dream.20110321: house of scissorhands
¶ by Rob FrieselIt’s an imaginative confluence of House of Leaves and Edward Scissorhands – the scene rendered in a Burtonesque palette: a narrow swath of rich blacks, blues, greys, whites, and the very rare, very bold singular subject color. The house is already labyrinthine, made oppressively so by a… feeling that something is not quite right. The […]
The Trouble with Physics
¶ by Rob FrieselI first came across The Trouble with Physics after reading The Elegant Universe and receiving this comment which pointed me to this review. I had closed the covers of The Elegant Universe feeling invigorated about physics generally 1 but sour on string theory specifically. Simply put, for as elegant as string theorists claim that string […]
Linkdump for March 19th
¶ by Rob FrieselReady for Contact at Smithsonian Magazine (via Boing Boing) — interesting article about first contact and the preparations for its eventuality (tagged: seti first_contact astronomy politics research essay todo ) Stranger than fiction: The search for habitable exomoons at BoingBoing (tagged: astronomy research ) How ‘OK’ took over the world at BBC News (via DF) (tagged: […]
Linkdump for March 15th
¶ by Rob FrieselMadvocates at NYTimes.com — apparently, my recent airline experiences have turned me into a "madvocate". (tagged: language colloquiallism ) Best SFF Novels of the Decade: An Appreciation of Blindsight Great write-up of a great novel by Elizabeth Bear at Tor.com. (tagged: Peter_Watts Blindsight )