I’m in search of lost time, as Proust might put it.  I’ve got a closet full of slide carousels documenting my various travels through the multiverse, and I’ve just bought a scanner/converter to bring them all into the digital age.  So for the last few days I have been soaking in nostalgia for the lost […]

I’ve been enjoying the autobiography of George Clinton, with its somehow perfect title, Brothas Be, YO Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You? I really didn’t follow Parliament/Funkadelic back in the day, for various reasons.  I liked my rock and roll more straight up.  P-Funk was so prolific, with its various incarnations— Parliament, Funkadelic, […]

More details about the fusion reactor being developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, courtesy of Aviation Week. “We would like to get to a prototype in five generations. If we can meet our plan of doing a design-build-test generation every year, that will put us at about five years, and we’ve already shown we can do […]

I am feeling particularly yeasty at the moment, because I’ve actually had a good night’s sleep, followed by a long, peaceful nap. This hasn’t happened lately. Something like two-and-a-half years ago, I woke sleeping on my left side, with my left arm pinned under me.   This resulted in a good deal of left shoulder […]