Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Voting Irregularities in Virginia and the Byrd Organization

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When the Republican putsch put the Bush administration into power in this country in 2000, thus ending democracy and destroying the credib...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Selected Items of Interest from Computer Games of Recent Vintage Part 1

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As previously mentioned, I did a survey of PC games a few years ago in order to form a more modern impression of the state of that industr...
Sunday, November 4, 2012

Some Criteria for Excellence in Computer-Based Entertainment

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Several years ago I did a survey of certain genres of computer game to better understand where they had come since my involvement in that ...

The Story of Columbia University's Second Campus

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So I am going to tell you a New York real estate story, the story of Columbia University's second campus. Their current location is th...

Need Information on ILM Profitability

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The LA Times published an article that said that ILM, Skywalker Sound & "other properties" made $258M in revenue in 2012.   I...
Friday, November 2, 2012

Republicans and Oral Sex

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Sometime near the end of the Clinton administration, I was sitting in my apartment in New York reading about current politics and the worl...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Drums Must Not Stop

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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. ...

Velikovsky and The Catastrophists

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[I think the title of this piece would make a fabulous name of a band of some sort]. When I worked at the Hayden Planetarium, there were ...

Tron 30th Anniversary Screening

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This is a report on the Tron 30th Anniversary Celebration held on Saturday, October 27.  This report will not be well-organized, I hope to r...

Wm Jones and His Famous Paragraph

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[As an aside, I wonder why I feel some responsibility to tell this story, whether in my own words, or not. Surely something as important as ...