Space Habitats In Story And Science
Edited By Gregory Benford and George Zebrowski
After watching Pixar’s WALL-E I was reminded of several classic short stories about people in generation ships or space stations. Classic stuff that seems dated now. The idea of flesh and blood humans living in space seems unlikely. It’s like fish of the Permian period building elaborate goldfish bowls or aquariums for living on land. I can see one fish telling another, “Here Bob, put on this suit and go plant a flag on the beach.” Humanity or whatever comes after us will have to adapt to that environment before they successfully live in space.
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Disney’s Pixar movie WALL-E Is a haunting disturbing experience. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Making Of The American West - 1800 To The Present
By Ted Morgan
The second half of Morgan’s state by state building of the United States. He focuses on the stories of particular individuals as they work to make their territory a state. Naturally I have mixed feelings about Manifest Destiny. The book breaks down by the time it gets to Alaska.
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The Settling Of The American Continent
By Ted Morgan
The first part of Morgan’s state by state history of the United States. There are odd tidbits like German immigrants in colonial Georgia. Things that will be conversation starters at parties around the country.
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On June 23, 2008 the Future Salon hosted Jeremy Toeman talk about Buglab’s new mobile base station called the bug. The modules connect like Lego blocks with screens, phones, GPS, cameras, and run on open source software. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
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On June 23, 2008 SDForum’s Virtual Reality SIG hosted Richard Childers, CEO of Virtual Space Entertainment, Inc. (VSE) to present a massively multiplayer virtual world called “Blue Mars 2150″. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
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On Thursday June 12, 2008 the STC Silicon Valley Chapter Council held its annual dinner at Il Postino in Sunnyvale. Viki Maki received her Associate Fellow from Revathi Sampath. Text from DJCline.com.
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I enjoyed the original TV series written by Buck Henry and Mel Brooks. Don Adams defined the role of Maxwell Smart. The James Bond films of the 1960s were so over the top that they cried out for ridicule. While Peter Sellers in Casino Royale and later Mike Myers as Austin Powers would parody the genre, Get Smart was more button-down biting satire. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Making Of Casablanca - Bogart, Bergman, And World War II
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One Woman’s Adventure Driving The Alaska Highway 1947-1948
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Long before America existed and the first barrel of oil was taken from the ground there was trouble in the Middle East. Here are some books on the subject. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
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Clocks And The Making Of The Modern World
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The Very Real Threat Of Comet And Asteroid Bombardment
By John S. Lewis
Meteors falling from the sky and killing everybody. Now we’ll never know how the TV show Lost ended. One more thing to keep you awake at night. I’m always afraid that they will make another big budget movie about it. That will put you right back to sleep.
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A Memoir
By Neil Simon
The second memoir picks up after the death of first wife and takes through his first divorce and last suicide attempt. Such pain from such a funny man.
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A Memoir
By Neil Simon
This first memoir starts after Simon left Sid Caesar’s show in the late 1950s until the death of his first wife in the early 1970s. It covers his most productive years as a playwright, starting out by fixing plays for other people and then striking out on his own with Barefoot In The Park and the Odd Couple. It is a very funny book until his wife gets sick. Still recommended.
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I enjoy meeting lots of people and hearing what they have to say. I know folks from all over the political spectrum, including libertarians. The irony of many libertarians is their disdain for bureaucracy and their encyclopedic knowledge of rules and regulations. Their coalitions never get big because they don’t want big. They always need money and never get elected. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
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