So I guess I should give my solution. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and trying to come up with something more than, “build a fucking rocket!” but that sums up my position nicely.

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Something has been bothering me for a couple weeks now. As everyone (should) know Obama has recently announced an end to NASA’s human space flight.  ( Read more... )

I haven’t posted anything in a long time, but the recent disagreement between Kellee Santiago and Roger Ebert on the topic of videogames as art has me thinking. And none of my normal chat partners are online.

Getting straight to the point, the problem seems to be that Ebert still thinks of games as an adversarial activity. When you play chess, you ( Read more... )

I'm anouncing my creation of a new unit of length, the "k-klick".

As most of you know, a klick is a military term for kilometer. However, when talking about orbital distances, it can become a mouth full. For example, "forty two thousand klicks". and the "megameter" isn't much better.

Thus the k-klick. Named for being 1,000 kilometers, or 1 million ( Read more... )

Ok ok, FINE! I’ll post something. I've got nothing to say, but I’ve been bugged into posting. I’ll give it to you.

A recent attempt to learn a song has reminded me of how I feel about music theory. If I can figure it out, I’ll post a little bit of what I’ve written to explain things to myself. ( Read more... )