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This was an excellent book – I especially loved the way Ray Bradbury ended it with the Afterward and Coda. Both of these bits have a confrontational anti-censorship edge that makes me smile, and continues to be relevant today Continue Reading »

I just finished watching the season finale of Heroes, and it seems like they’ve managed to botch things up once again. They continue to rely on the standby plot devices of “kill a main character” and “bring back an old bad guy” in lieu of truely creative writing. They also feel compelled to set up “cliffnangers” with ridiculously predictable outcomes – as if Sylar-as-Nathan isn’t going to slowly emerge and resume his former “bad guy” activities?

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Good science fiction authors are at the same time remarkably prophetic in their thinking and humorously influenced by their own time. I remember laughing aloud when one of the characters in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land began darning a sock.   Continue Reading »

Inspired by a number of amazing, professional sites, I spent a bunch of time working with TimK on creating my own version of a style switcher. To be honest, at this point the code is rather ham-handed and I’ll be looking to improve it in the near future. Continue Reading »

It’s bothered me for a long time that people talk about “finding a cure for cancer.” Today, Jorge Cham of PhD comics has addressed this very same issue in a very easy to understand and straightfoward way – his comic. I enjoy the rest of his comics and it’s awesome that he’s taken the time to try and explain the complexities of cancer in this way.  Definitely check out the comic – it’s worth reading and might help you understand what cancer researchers are dealing with.

I’ve been working on updating my research poster for a presentation I’ll be giving at UMBC as part of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achivement Day. I have been a part of this project since I first started working in scientific research last year, and it’s been extremely exciting to start to see the data come together. Here’s a look into the kind of stuff I do at work. Continue Reading »

Rachel and I see one set of our respective parents and siblings nearly every weekend, so when Easter rolled around we decided to spend the Sunday with our nuclear family – that is, just the two of us.  We went out to Giant Sunday morning and picked up a bunch of materials for an easy-but-nice Easter dinner, and happened to bump into our friend Omar. Since we hadn’t seen him in ages, we invited him over. Continue Reading »

I like HDR photography, and I like Left 4 Dead, so when I saw a link to a Flickr gallery of Left 4 Dead-inspired HDR photography, I was pretty excited. I think they do a pretty good job at recreating the L4D atmosphere with live-action models. Continue Reading »

I realized this week that I was having some trouble getting pingbacks to work on the site. I spent far too much time scouring the internet looking for solutions to the problem with little luck. Ultimately, it appears that the issue was more specifically related to my conditions than I initially expected, but in the event that somebody else comes along with a similar malfunction, here’s how I’ve managed to solve it. Continue Reading »

Somehow I’ve found myself involved in the ongoing issue over screening adult films on University System of Maryland schools. There are a few good articles to read on the subject as it stands right now, but here’s a quick summary: College Park was going to screen an adult film in the student theater, but the state legislature (namely Andy Harris) have threatened to pull all funding from a state school if they choose to show adult films in any context aside from a professor in a classroom. Continue Reading »