Archives: 2002 January
20 Years Later. Time for a new brand of film.
January 30th, 2002, No Comments
I got an email yesterday informing me that my 21 year high school reunion was being planned. My first thought was, Hey, what happened to the 20 year reunion? My second thought was, Yikes! 21 years since high school? I’m an old guy now! Oh well, I don’t really feel any older than [...]
Larry Niven: Rainbow Mars
January 16th, 2002, No Comments
I just finished reading Larry Niven’s Rainbow Mars. It’s no Ringworld but it was the most entertaining Niven book I’ve read in a while. Bascially, Niven felt a little left out since just about every other SF writer has been writing Mars stories in the last few year. Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, This [...]
Going Green in Texas
January 4th, 2002, No Comments
One cool thing that came to Texas along with the new year is deregulation of the electricity market. This means instead of being forced to buy my electricity from TXU’s pollution generating plants, I can choose to buy it from non-polluting energy companies. Today I signed up to change our provider from TXU to Green [...]
Lead Poisoning and Terrorism
January 2nd, 2002, No Comments
Apparent madness, dramatically lower than usual IQ, behavioral and learning disorders, violent anti-social behavior, kidney problems – am I describing the average Islamic terrorist (Bin Laden comes to mind) or a victim of lead poisoning? Turns out the two could have more in common than expected. I ran across an interesting news item that talks [...]
What Happened to the Future?
January 1st, 2002, No Comments
wow! When I was a kid I used to think about the future a lot. How old will I be in this or that year? What will the world be like? But the future I was thinking of then was 1984, 1999, 2000, and 2001. I never really thought much about what the years after [...]
