Catalytic Narrative

So I'm reading this book by Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained . Good stuff! So far it's doing a pretty darned good job of l...

I absolutely love, as in desperately, to tinker with machines. Motors, computers, ideas, the works. Right now I'm tinkering with languag...

I was shocked when I watched Hero . It seemed that history had been flip-flopped yet again and so Qin Shihuang was not a despot anymore. I c...

I first saw the sign "in person" after climbing up a long set of steps from the walk of stars in Hollywood. The steps took me insi...

The proper response to an Internet search which turns up nothing is anger. The field of expectation has been created that it is worthwhile t...

China is all over the news these days. People with a somewhat longer memory than normal here still remember the events tagged by "June ...

As I learn to write, I have an awfully hard time finding the balance between working out thoughts for myself, and distilling something into ...