Incredible. As Americans, we made history yesterday. We came out to the polls in huge 1 numbers to decisively elect Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. It seems that everyone I know or have spoken with is a-buzz with this news. As I write this, President-Elect Obama has 349 […]
(Original posted on Flickr; credit to victoriabernal.)
Well, the 2008 garden has been put to bed! We hadn’t done much with it in about a month or so. Tough to say how much we got out of the garden this year. I’m tempted to say that we bit off more than we could chew this year; A. & I over-estimated how much […]
Although I will argue that my judgment was impaired, A. talked me into creating a Facebook profile two nights ago. I don’t really remember the circumstances or her rationale. But she made an impassioned plea that on some level resonated with me, for better or worse. So there I am. Time will tell if this […]
Wrapping up Q3 of ’08 1… The results are in for my personal goals for 2008: See also: Q1 and Q2 results.[↩]
Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter 1 Cryptonomicon by Stephenson 2 Cold War: An Illustrated History, 1945-1991 by Isaacs and Downing The UFO Phenomenon (Mysteries of the Unknown) by Time-Life Orbiter by Ellis (illustrated by Foran with Stewart) How to Get Happily Published by Appelbaum The New Space Opera edited by Dozois and Straham (Original at Flickr.) Yes, still reading […]
The “classic” sci-fi time waster is not just restricted to colonizing distant suns and/or flying around blowing up shit. No. Sometimes it involves flying to distant suns that are already colonized, geting out of your spaceship and then blowing up shit. And after all, isn’t that — the epic space opera, anchored on some Byzantine galaxy-spanning empire […]
In the previous two installments of this series, we discussed two “classic” science fiction games from the PC world: Sierra On-Line’s Outpost and Microprose’s Lightspeed. A theme common to both of those games is a sense of isolation — you’re cut off from the rest of humankind and you’ll have to live by your wits […]
Well, the garden is winding down. Aside from one or two cherry tomato plants that are holding on for dear life, about the only thing left to harvest is the butternut squash. And they’re not quite done yet. Just about all the carrots and everything else have finished their respective runs. It was a good […]