Warning: Here Be Nerdiness
Yesterday, a conversation with a student somehow turned to the Michael Bay movie Armageddon--a film that shares the same real estate in my cortex as the Tuck Rule Game, the George…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin is thinking of writing a book. Because the Earth's population includes a high percentage of awful, awful people, I'm sure Akin's tome will finish as a…
Reading Dismantle the Sun for Free
I haven't bothered to publicize this, but it is possible to read my novel without spending money. Follow this link and you can read it to your heart's content. The…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
How NASA might build its first warp drive. How I feel about life today: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiMbiRa_gnY&w=420&h=315] I always enjoy November sweeps because that's when Fox News gins up its new manufactured…
Skyfall
Warning: Here be spoilers. Let's get obligatory stuff out of the way first. Contra the blurbsters, Skyfall is not the best Bond movie ever made. At 145 minutes, Skyfall's pacing gets baggy…
The Lingering Pleasure of Ambiguity
Lee Rourke, editor of 3AM, on the pleasure of the ambiguous ending: It's no surprise that most novels are ruined by their forced "endings"; by our collective desire for them to…
A Black Monolith Perhaps?
NASA tells us the announcement of a historic discovery is in the offing, proving that there's a little showman in all of us. Feel free to spend the next few…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Okay, the premise of the Red Dawn remake is that North Korea invaded us? North Korea, the country that can't feed itself because it blows all its dough on missiles that…
Blood Promises: Coming In January
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Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Ray Kurzweil asks how many brain implants a person could receive before they cease to be human. I'm not sure of the answer to that, because all I want to…