This has got to be the funniest Google Search I’ve ever run. I was trying to find a quote from a movie, to comment on this post, and I knew it went “Say what you like about [something], at least it’s [something else]”. So I Googled for “Say what you like about…” I think every…more
One of my favorite stories to tell is that of a couple who came into my restaurant when I was a waiter. They sat down across a large table from each other, asked me if I would kindly bring them paper and a pencil (I obliged with a roll of receipt paper), and then went…more
Living near San Francisco means I am privy to lots of emerging trends; the area is a blender for innumerable cultures and ideas; the proliferation of academic institutions means new research is produced here daily. You become used to it, ambivalent to even big changes in the culture. Often that’s a great thing, as it…more
Prey is the first fiction book I’ve read in a while; a welcome change from having to take notes on every page of similarly-themed scientific works. It explores a nanotechnological disaster, with self-replicating machines working as swarms to overwhelm their creators. Crichton, as always, has done his homework on this one, with several pages of…more