I've been enjoying FlashForwarda new TV show this season. The premise: one day in October everyone in ( Read more... )

I used to occasionally have a problem with an overnight power outage killing the alarm clock and causing me to oversleep, but I've more recently realized that having a UPS or three means never having to fear that again. :-) (Fortunately, today's power outage came after we were up, not in the middle of the night, and only lasted about five minutes ( Read more... )

( religion, musical instruments, operating systems, misc )

Humor:
This Frazz strip rings true. :-)
Quote of the day, by gnomi: "The simple carbohydrate asks, 'What's this?' To him you should explain about all the starches that are chametz, but not the afikomen."
Ten Principles of Economics, Translated includes this gem and many others ( Read more... )

After I saw the movie The Golden Compass I added the ( Read more... )

I've mentioned before that my synagogue maintains a freezer of donated, cooked food to have on hand for houses of mourning, families where someone's sick, and similar acute cases of need. I think this is a great idea; if you're cooking anyway you can cook a little more to donate and help someone out. Yesterday I got email from the person who ( Read more... )

A long time ago, I published a set of instructions for building a yurt (aka ger), the Mongolian temporary dwelling. I had built one for SCA use, building on knowledge from others, and collected what I'd learned as the next contribution. I'm sure there've been plenty of works since then that should have deprecated my little article, but it's ( Read more... )

Receiving these questions reminded me that I owed questions to a couple people. I've posted some for you on that entry; if you didn't receive the email, let me know.
( fruit, books, music )

Dan Simmons recently published this story on his web site. It's part SF, part commentary on current events, part dystopia, but I enjoyed reading it. (I did see half of the ending revelation coming somewhat early; I don't know if that was intentional.)
I had not heard of the lost gospel of Judas until I saw the news stories ( Read more... )

Occasionally, we all look at the science fiction of decades gone by and are amused by the technology they didn't predict. You know, stories set in the far future where computers occupy entire rooms, because no one in the 60s imagined anything different -- that sort of thing.
I sometimes look at today's SF and wonder ( Read more... )