Thursday, December 10, 2015

To boldly go where everyone has gone before...

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Let's be real, galactic colonization is not going to happen anytime soon.  There's no hyperdrive/warp. The physics we have toda...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

On Bollywood

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My relationship with Bollywood's been fairly interesting, I think.  When I was growing up, Bollywood consisted of this blur of ima...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

unfinished stories

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we don't know where they go, or where they come from. they just are. today. now. that's their perfection, with no excuses and no ap...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

on demons.

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Just a quick brief little note demons are terrible adversaries to have. you know, they're really quite small? tiny enough that you won...
Sunday, March 01, 2015

broken

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we all have things to do, places to go.  people to be.  and then there's some of the others, the ones who show up now and then. the ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

That one perfect word

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It's a warm, starry, moonless night. Let's go out, you and I. Walk out into the dark, lie down in the soft grass, and look up.  ...
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Monday, December 08, 2014

Waiting for the Singularity

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Nearly there.  It's been a long ride. We nearly didn't make it so many times. We still might not get there, but we can see the r...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Touched by a Dark Angel

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I see Her sometimes out of the corner of my eye, a flitting dark shadow far away, right there in front of me, going about her work, and I a...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The best of all possible worlds

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There was a interesting ethical question doing the rounds on Quora - would you go back in time to kill Hitler? I don't think so. It...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

sensory continuum

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i stood in an empty room halogens glowed in pools of oil and water on the concrete rows of chrome gleamed in silence, perfectly disciplin...

between timelines

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haunted by the ghost of a boy who never existed stepped back a decade or two through the portal everything changed forget the family lef...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Faffing around Furniture

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You know, it's the weirdest thing, but I've come to realize that there's one piece of furniture we always overlook and ignore,...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Looking at the other side

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Note - this post is likely to depress you A few days back, a friend of mine posted a (probably by now a much-shared) link to a series ...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Crime, Punishment and Belief

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It just occurred to me, the whole concept of the death penalty works if the condemned - and the accused, the potential perpetrators - beli...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

Drugs are a necessity...

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...as a socio-evolutionary regulator.  Think about it.  In any given situation, if one person gains a slight advantage over others,...
Thursday, June 06, 2013

Do you really want to live forever?

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Thought Experiment.  Medical science finally gets telomere-repairing gene therapy right, and we all can now live till age 500+, in perfe...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The Message is the Medical Medium

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Was reading an interesting article about exocommunications. Started a train of thought - we assume that aliens will want to communicate u...

Parenting

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...is terrifying . Fucking piss-yourself, go-into-shock terrifying.  It's more frightening than anything you've ever done, eve...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Not If. When.

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I read The Lord Of The Flies  on a long-distance bus more than a decade ago. I finished it in a few hours, and spent the rest (mostly) sta...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

A single page

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As part of a  C E N S O R E D  process, I was quickly scribbling down a brief history of where I've worked - names, places, designati...