Posted in Fiction, Philosophy, Science Fiction on March 6, 2008 | 9 Comments »
What is your personal science fiction fantasy? Let’s say you die and wake up in front of a superior being and he/she/it tells you to pick your next life, what would it be? You can pick anything from reality, your own imagination or from any fictional world you’ve encountered. It’s a big multiverse out there [...]
Posted in Computers, Global Warming, Philosophy on March 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ever since I saw An Inconvenient Truth I’ve been pondering ways to do my part to use less carbon. Since I work with computers the first idea I had was to stop leaving my computers on 24-hours a day. That isn’t easy since at work I manage four servers and have two computers for programming. [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Philosophy, Science Fiction on March 8, 2007 | No Comments »
I just finished reading Timescape by Gregory Benford and Walden by Henry David Thoreau and the two books strike me as a perfect set for a meditation on time travel. I doubt Henry David Thoreau ever thought about time travel, but any writer that produces a classic book is communicating across time, sending messages [...]
Posted in Astronomy, Philosophy on February 10, 2007 | 4 Comments »
“Because something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?” – Bob Dylan
I think people forget we live in a fantastically large universe. We’re bacteria living in a drop of water and imagine the few molecules we swim in are the crown of creation, the darling of God’s [...]
