Hey everyone. Just dropping a note to say “I’m still alive and I haven’t given up on Lawyers, Guns and Money.” This semester has basically defeated me. I simply cannot finish t
In this 2007 book, Halting State, Charles Stross describes a near future in which the internet makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for ordinary people to properly attribute communications
I dislike science fiction as a genre. While there are a couple of science fiction films I do like, they are not of the norm of the genre (Solaris, La Jetée) and I simply don’t have time for rea
Danger Room has convened a symposium re-evaluating Imperial strategy and military performance at the Battle of Hoth. My own contribution was simply a translation (with the assistance of former Patters
This is going to make it very difficult to mount a credible counter-offensive against the Gamilons: Researchers have been studying the Titanic’s remains since they were discovered resting more than
1) A small puppy, if walked real hard first, will sit quietly outside long enough for a decent taping with no unseemly background noise. (I had worried about that.) 2) It’s important to spell ou
Few things are more entertaining to an academic than to watch two fellow academics go head to head over the meaning of “fellow academic.” Will one of those few things be the first episode
For some reason, I find this enormously fascinating: Lenin told the British science fiction writer H.G. Wells, who interviewed him in the Kremlin in 1920, that if life were discovered on other planets