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“My God, it’s full of stars!”*
I’m no mathematician, and I won’t claim that the imagery used of the ‘artifact’ in Communion of Dreams was intended to reference this, but if you think about it (and have read the entire book), this...
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Daisy, Daisy …
One of the things I’ve been a little bit surprised by has been just how many people have volunteered to me (or in reviews) just how much they like the ‘Experts’ in Communion of Dreams, and in...
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Traces of the fire.
The words we read are just traces of the fire burning in the mind of another. This is lovely: Sorry for the quick posts. Lots of interesting things happening. I should have more to share on all of that...
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I watched a movie…
This brief post is about the recent science fiction movie Looper. It contains spoilers. You’ve been warned. * * * * * * * Last night I watched Looper. This in itself isn’t unusual, since I try and...
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Because …
… I’m a big 2001: A Space Odyssey fan, as well as a paleo-future geek, I offer this wonderful insight into my past/future: “2001: A Space Odyssey” Howard Johnsons Children’s Menu (1968) Yeah, that’s...
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I, for one, welcome our new NSA Overlords.
Everyone is thinking about the whole “NSA Spying” thing all wrong. This isn’t about surveillance. It’s not whether there is a trade off to be made between security and privacy. It isn’t a question of...
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Good times, bad times … *
Partially related to stuff which happens in St. Cybi’s Well, but also I suspect because I just turned 55, I’ve been thinking about “time” a lot. The perceptions of it, how it ‘works’, how it is...
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“And it exploded.”*
A bit of an apology to any who feel they deserve it: I intentionally understated just how bad my wife’s acute appendicitis was earlier this week. Once she had surgery and was admitted to the hospital...
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Printed in blood.
While on my morning walk, I was enjoying the beautiful day, the glint of sun on the dewdrops, the company of my dog. And thinking about blood. Specifically, about the old notion of a “contract signed...
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The end of things.
This morning, NPR repeated the story of Voyager 1 having apparently left the solar system. I wonder why? * * * Philip James Bailey, Festus: We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In...
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Proof of concept.
Interesting: Imagine three astronauts, 125 million miles from the Earth, talking to Mission Control with a four-minute time lag. They have seen nothing out their windows but stars in the blackness of...
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All us zombies.*
I wouldn’t have the nerve to include this kind of thing in a novel … no one would believe that such an agency would have such a twisted sense of humor. The magazine printed several slides alleged to...
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Welcome to the paleo-future.
I grew up reading stuff like this: And even had a really cool metal rocket based on the images from Destination Moon which one of my relatives made and gave me. For the longest time those sleek rockets...
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“A Look Behind the Future.”
Via Open Culture, this brilliant, and fairly hilarious, promotional documentary about the ‘forthcoming’ movie 2001: A Space Odyssey: As the Open Culture post says: The Apollo 11 moon landing would,...
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“Memories, you’re talking about memories.”
Wow: I am staggered by this thing: a 35-minute “paraphrasing” of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner from 12,597 animated watercolor paintings. It’s beautiful and insane—who would do this? A really big Blade...
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What kind of future were you expecting?
One with an ‘expert’ like Seth from Communion of Dreams? Or maybe, a little closer to our own time, say one which includes something like HAL from 2001? Ha! Sucker. You should know that reality would...
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