Back From Convergence
We're finally back from Convergence. It was a wild, and at many times, frustrating event this year. Here is the first video clip from the con that I have been…
Non-SF Films To See
I am doing a panel at Convergence on what Non-Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror films people should see. It's a long list, about 80 films, and thought I would share it here as…
ConSarnit 1
ConSarnit 1 proved to a successful event this past Saturday, with about twenty fans of the Western Film in attendance. The convention was patterned using the same model that has…
Prince Caspian
Let me start off by saying that I have (regrettably) never read the Chronicles of Narnia. When The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe was released in December of 2005,…
Sto-vo-kor on My Mini City
I ran across something new called My Mini city. It is a game in which you create a virtual city and then get people to come visit it by clicking…
Steampunk Laptop
I spotted this over on Walter Hunt's blog and thought it was just too cool for words. It's a Steampunk Laptop. For those of you who do not know what…
MarsCon 2008 Videos Online Now
Finally, after getting past the audio syncing problem with one of the clips, I have completed the videos and uploaded them to YouTube. Faces of British troops have been digitized.…
MarsCon Video Editing
I've been trying to get my video from MarsCon 2008 and ran into a problem with one of the clips having the audio becoming progressively out of sync with the…
Vets For Freedom at the Fort Snelling Officers Club
"Let them win," was how Master Gunner Tom Parks put it last night at the Fort Snelling Officer's Club. These three simple words sum up the overall feeling of the…
Arthur C. Clarke – He Will Be Greatly Missed
Arthur C. Clarke, author of many great SF novels and stories, including Childhood's End and Rendezvous With Rama, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, has…