So here we are in the future, the year we make contact and all that jazz, and I still don’t have my flying car or my hoverboard. This glaring oversight of the scientific community continues to fill my heart with longing, sorrow, and rage but I suppose phone-computers and wireless recharging mats are sci-fi enough [...]
In the Ukraine, there is a group of women who call themselves the Asgarda living as an Amazon tribe. The ferocious-looking tribe is “…comprised of 150 women of varying ages, primarily students, led by 30 year-old Katerina Tarnouska. Reviving the tribal traditions of the Scythian Amazons of ancient Greek mythology, the Asgarda train in martial [...]
I’m screwing around with Twitter. The service was a blip on my radar when it emerged a couple years back, and I promptly discarded it as a pointless waste of time. But its been in the news quite a bit lately, with apparently huge numbers of people migrating to the service. I thought maybe I [...]
I generally don’t tend to go for internet memes. I figure that the world at large can get along just fine without knowing 25 things about me, or the last time I smiled. That being said, after seeing it on the A.V. Club, I felt an irresistible compulsion to participate in this round of memery: [...]
With respect to Johnny Cash, who I’m pretty sure made a similar list in the liner notes of one of his albums although I cannot find it: I like stories about (in no particular order): being clever, championing lost causes, defying expectations, quests, samurai, magicians (stage), magicians (occult), soldiers, science, love, sex, death, loss, redemption, [...]