The Oscar for best science in a movie goes to…
A very entertaining analysis on the levels of scientific accuracy in some of the most well known science fiction movies of the past 75 years. While I don’t necessarily agree with some of his grades, I do find his reasoning very interesting and thought provoking …
My Movies 2025
Every year I try to make a New Year’s resolution. Some are successful, others not so much. But this year I resolved to watch a lot of movies, both current releases, ones I’ve missed over the years and others older than myself. So far, I have been quite successful in this resolution, even pushing myself to see movies I wouldn’t necessarily watch. For example, the day David Lynch passed away, I put on Mulholland Dr, a movie I had never seen before. I’m not one for horror films, not that this movie counts as horror, but it’s certainly a psychological drama that sticks with you for a long time like a very twisted nightmare.
AI Profile Image
Sometimes when I’m bored, I like to futz around on image AI, because you really never know what you’re going to end up with. In this case, I went in trying to recreate an image of R2-D2 my brother was playing with and ended up with an intriguing new profile image for me to use online.
Animals, Mostly Birds
Taking photos of animals is always fun and can sometimes be a challenge. Birds, for example, are probably the trickiest as sometimes you just have to be lucky. For example, the egret landing on water in the third row of images below, was pure luck, with feet just about to touch glassy water. Sometimes when you click for a photo, you have to just hope for the best. Same for the blue heron in the top row of photos, this taken up at Stanford Dish in Palo Alto, California. The birds are motionless …
Life Before Mobile Phones
Let me just say from the outset that I am a technology geek. I have an iPhone I use for a wide variety of tasks such as checking email, listening to music, browsing the web, playing Scrabble, watching TV, listening to the radio, taking and editing photos, finding my way around via Google or Apple maps, reading books, magazines & newspapers, checking Facebook & Twitter, monitoring my dietary intake, and oh yes, making phone calls.
Bonefro, Italy
At one point in my life, during and after college, I was a professional freelance musician playing violin and viola in various ensembles in Southern California. One of my Italian colleagues from this time founded a chamber music festival in Bonefro, Italy called the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival. It was a three week intensive session for conservatory level string players from around the world performing chamber music and taking lessons with its faculty. Bonefro is a small and ancient town dating back nearly 2,000 years with a population of roughly 1,000 people and situated in the agricultural …
Low Stress Television
One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2025 has been to watch more movies and quality television. I am very good at not seeing a movie when it comes out in the theaters due to a pretty busy life, which then leads to a large backlog of movies to catch up on, and mine is pretty epic in size. Covid aside, I probably sit in a movie theater once a year …
Hello World!
Hello world! Welcome to my first blog post on my redesigned website.
I recently redesigned this site editing an existing template from the Squarespace library. This includes trying out their blog creation tool, which will take some time getting used to. It’s not the typical feature-stuffed CMS like Wordpress, instead focusing more on SEO, social media, typography and …