When I was an 8-year-old kid, my grandfather called and invited me to listen to his new record. It was a vinyl recording of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. I don’t remember which version was or what orchestra performed it, or which director was at the helm. All those details were meaningless for that 8-year-old […]
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Given my current fascination with scale modeling, I got a set of Polish made papercraft templates that will enable anybody with enough patience to build a 1:200 scale model of a Fletcher.
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This story was inspired by a discussion thread in a sci-fi Facebook group.
Like everybody else with a broadband internet connection, I spend an embarrassing amount of time watching YouTube videos. Shame on me. The only redeeming factor of my worthless habit is that the videos I like to watch are usually about stuff I like; history, science, engineering, planes, cars, astronomy, space, computers, well you get the […]
“Space Oddity” was the first Bowie song that I heard, it was haunting, beautiful and otherwordly. I heard it while looking for new stuff for the “radio” that was my responsibility in high school in the early eighties. The’”white thin duke” trend and fad still had to come. In those years I was a weird, […]
A few weeks ago, in order to get my family updated regarding Star Wars background details, we went through the original trilogy via Netflix. And after watching all the classic sequences, I started to think about the lessons in Process Automation that can be extracted from the original trilogy. No, really, I’m not under the influence […]