Saving SchrÃdinger's Cat (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/profile.php/blog/tvelocity During the time I lived in Hawaii I came to appreciate the simultaneously bold and delicate flavors of Hawaiian-grown coffee beans and would spend a lot of free time in a coffee shop with a particular roasting method that brought Kona to Mt. Olympus-levels of coffee perfection. The shop had a hulking, iron, 1950âs-era mechanical roaster right in the middle of the shop, which was tended by an Italian expatriate who would tend to the beans with his giant aluminum p...[Read Full Post] Fri, 21 Apr 2023 11:48:59 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1048555 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1048555 Last year, a theoretical physicist and intellectual whom I respect, Michio Kaku, said this about UFOs: "The burden of proof has shifted," he said. "It used to be the burden of proof was on the people who believe in UFOs. Now the burden of proof has shifted to the Pentagon, to the military. Now they have to prove that these arenât extraterrestrial." Iâm not sure what was going through Michioâs head, other than a misrepresentation of what burde...[Read Full Post] Sat, 04 Mar 2023 11:59:41 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1045933 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1045933 In the movie âJacobâs Ladder,â the titular character has to contend with monstrosities that plague him throughout the story as he tries to find out what happened to him during his time in Vietnam. It turns out (spoiler alert) that he never left Vietnam, and that the monsters stalking him are actually angels of death trying to carry him away after he was mortally wounded. Once he realizes this, the cosplaying angels become the avatar of his previously-dead son, wh...[Read Full Post] Thu, 09 Jun 2022 17:47:10 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1033662 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1033662 Many years back I read a story called âJohnny Mnemonic.â It was a cyberpunk story in which people move confidential information from one place to another inside their brains. They are paid for this service, but the catch is, they have to purge some of their memories to accommodate the data they are carrying. It kind of redefines disk cleanup. Recently, anyone not living under a rock is probably aware of all the hype concerning cryptocurrencies and non-fungibl...[Read Full Post] Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:03:48 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1027228 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1027228 For this entry, I am taking a page from other bloggers and going over an article, responding to it point by point. Iâm not sure if this is the best way to write a blog, but itâs certainly a way to claw yourself past a dry spell and maybe juice a little creativity and thoughtfulness in the process. Not the most original thing for me to do, but here it is. Anxiety and depression is a subject thatâs been done to death this past year, and yet the antidepressant me...[Read Full Post] Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:34:27 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1017767 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1017767 I recently finished reading the Silmarillion, which is a series of stories written by J.R.R. Tolkien and posthumously published by his son, Christopher. This book is not an easy read, and reads like something between the Bible, and ancient Greek epics, which might have been what Tolkien had in mind when he wrote it. What struck me about this work was the tone which pervaded the stories and became more prominent toward the end â that of sadness and loss. This lo...[Read Full Post] Sun, 28 Mar 2021 22:56:24 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1007223 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1007223 What is flavor anyway? The most obvious answer is that it is how people perceive food upon consumption. All perception can be altered, of course. I recently saw a video clip from Americaâs Test Kitchen channel, where they got an actual chocolate expert to taste two different samples of chocolate while listening to two different musical clips. The taster gave a different impression of each sample, while acknowledging the music playing in the background. It turns ou...[Read Full Post] Fri, 05 Feb 2021 11:36:50 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1003699 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1003699 I've always had a fascination with Frank Herbert's Dune series of books. I found his universe strange, yet captivating, with people in it who have fired my imagination and even inspired my own attempts at speculative fiction. The different aristocratic houses, the bizarre cultures and weird races have made Dune a universe I have wanted to explore again and again. Though I was less impressed with Brian Herbert's continuation of the series, they are stil...[Read Full Post] Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:32:45 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1003531 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1003531 It's a new year, and a new month, and it's about time I started adding to the blog here at the Cat. That, I'm tired of looking at those nagging "Update Your Blog!!!" notifications. So here's to sharing my thoughts and opinions on subjects of public and private interest, such as they are. The trouble is, I'm the kind of person who carefully considers his words before committing them to the ether (which is why I don't use Twitter, the...[Read Full Post] Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:19:57 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1003458 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1003458 On Thursday, people all across the continent will gather together in the annual tradition of bingeing and gossiping. While the tradition dates back centuries, even before the Pilgrims allegedly stepped from the Mayflower onto the Rock of History, our contemporaries seemed to have claimed it for their own. Even Old-World cultures seemed to have adopted the practice. And why not? Itâs a time for family and good cheer, and it conveniently takes place at a time when ...[Read Full Post] Mon, 23 Nov 2020 19:10:32 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/998979 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/998979