Spent an hour with the slab of Texas Cream limestone today. Next to marble, this is like carving butter. Looking forward to more time on this.
Thinking about carving an abstract torso “plant stand” into the large block of Crema Español (a particularly attractive variety of marble from Spain) I’ve been holding on to for a […]
Growing up in the 60s and 70s in rural America, one had little reason not to be optimistic about the future (though, of course, some of us had the Book of Revelation keeping us in a cold sweat). The baby boomer’s had every reason to believe they would match and exceed the abundance of their […]
You know it’s a mainstream idea when Cringely devotes his weekly column to the topic. Late last week, he wrote Surviving Immortality: just getting to the Singularity is the hard part which is a fairly balanced introduction to the notion of a Technological Singularity.
Having long been a follower of Kurzweil’s writings, I’ve been reading about […]
Part of my current daily ritual (being a die-hard tech geek and all) is my morning dose of technology & world news. Here are a few feeds that I rarely miss day to day:
KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News hosted by Ray Kurzweil, one of my favorite authors. (also available as a daily email)
Slashdot: News for […]
Starting a new category: “Only in the USA”. There are a lot of good reasons to like living in the USA. There are many other aspects of life with Uncle Sam that are ridiculous, alarming or downright scary—some of which make me want to run for the nearest border. Many of these, on […]
While seeking more background on Vernor Vinge, I ran into The Future and You, a blog by one Steve Cobb which apparently generates monthly podcasts on “ideas and opinion about the future based on verifiable facts of today”. Hmmm, this does look like some interesting listening. At any rate, here are podcasts of interviews with Vernor Vinge (two at […]
So I have finally decided to start a blog. Initially (and for the forseeable future) this will be little more than a personal journal where I track and record thoughts and ideas for which I have some greater-than-passing interest. It is mainly for myself (a journal more than a blog) but also a means of […]