For those who don’t know, I’m supposed to be in England this week, getting ready to watch the ICC World Twenty20 Final on Sunday, but I’m not and therefore I’m in a grumpy mood, so rather than take it out on England’s mostly rubbish performance (Seriously, they lost a cricket match to the Netherlands?) I’m … Read more
We took the kids to the Challenger Space Center yesterday. It’s an odd building nestled inside a high school’s campus. Every car that entered had to pause to contemplate this. Do you follow the clear markings on the road guiding you right or do you follow the equally clear sign directing you left?
Cliffhangers. The bane of modern television and the province of hack writers. Oh sure, cliffhangers have been around for a long time, they go back at least as far as the Saturday-afternoon movie series of the 30s. Cleverly designed stories intended to get the kids back each week to spend their hard-earned cash. Did it … Read more
Summer is on us again in Arizona. This year we’re not going to be doing home improvements but we did get some radiant heat barrier similar to what we installed in the attic two years ago to install in our laundry room. We have a back room which was added onto our house many years … Read more
On the subject of the Stanford University (iTunes U) iPhone Programming class. I had a professor at university who walked in the door on the first day, slammed a book on the podium, and in a loud Germanic accent bellowed, “There will be no stupid questions in this class! The only stupid questions are the … Read more
Discover magazine has posted the following Rules for Time Travelers. Actually, it takes most of the fun out of the whole concept, but in summary they are: 0. There are no paradoxes 1. Traveling into the future is easy 2. Traveling into the past is hard – but maybe not impossible 3. Traveling through time … Read more
Synopsis An anomaly opens at a test track, the crew dispatch the scene, and encounter a giant bug, which is luckily killed by a car. The anomaly is closed. Abby’s brother Jack (hereafter referred to as Jack-Ass) pokes through his sister’s purse and finds the anomaly detector. When she won’t tell him what it’s really … Read more
From Variety: In a high-six-figure deal, Warner Bros. has acquired screen rights to “Primeval,”the ITV series that airs in the U.S. on BBC America and Sci Fi Channel. Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster will produce through Goldsman’s WB-based Weed Road banner. Emily Cummins will also be involved in a producing capacity. Goldsman, who scripted the … Read more
I’ve been trying to get my head around Objective-C and Mac/iPhone programming for the last month or so. At this point, I think I’ve got most of the major concepts down. As an Object Oriented (OO) language, it bears a certain familial resemblance to Java, which I typically program in these days. While I’m not … Read more
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