Global Wahrman

draft As we proceed inevitably to that automatic or machine-assisted diagnosis of eccentricities and other traits that have in the past be...

I believe that as we live our pathetic lives in our corrupt society, that we are all of us under a moral obligation to enliven and otherw...

Christmas Day, 2014 This is the second part of my impressions of a recent trip to Disneyland, the original park, for the first time ...

[This essay is slowly being rewritten ... the topic is the relationship between targeted internet ads and big data machine learning of cust...

Well we finally had a decent earthquake after a long time. Not that great, but a 4.7 which is just ok. About 60 miles away. Pffft.  One ...

Tonight is Hollywood's most holy night of the year. It is the day when our people come from all over the world to virtually or liter...

[Substantially revised 2/19/2013] Anyone who looks at the field of Computer Graphics and Animation today sees vast misery, incredible and ...

New York Magazine  has an excellent essay on the subject of whether or not we ever really leave High School.   Its a topic of great interes...

In a stunning reversal, the White House has turned its back on the popular petition to build a Death Star, citing administration policy not...

In the spirit of the holidays, I set out to write a short essay on what I had learned about the origins of our Midwinter holiday and its t...

In a remarkable turnaround, over 14,000 signatures were added to the petition to Obama to start building a Death Star by 2016.   The curren...

The other day after a memorial service for an old friend from Disney, some of the Disney people took me to a local restaurant for dinner. ...

Generally speaking, visual effects people are more deadpan than animation people. Animation people are generally more wacky. For exam...