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  1. MikeKardec

    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    Of course that's assuming aliens can "see" anything. If you look back through the history of art a lot of what exists more than a couple of hundred years ago seems very poorly rendered, yet today it seems nearly every high school class has some kid in it who can knock out a nicely...
  2. MikeKardec

    Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

    I have noticed a slight tendency for writers who document "scientific" yet "supernatural" events like UFOs or Bigfoot sightings (as opposed to the non "scientific" sort like seeing Angels or Fairy's ... that one was big in the 1890s) to edit the account so that it seems more credible and to cut...
  3. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Congratulations! I wish I had that sort of situation. Unfortunately, I'm too often finding that things I hope to do are impossible or difficult to figure out if they are possible. Growl. I tend to discover that after a certain amount of basic research going further (before the story is...
  4. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I just got back from a sort of backwards research trip. One of the books I just finished up is my father's first novel. Never published it was written in the late 1930s and takes place aboard a tanker ship bound for Manila and in the port of San Pedro, CA. What I've had to do was a good deal...
  5. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    It's odd, you might end up in a nearby town but you probably won't get in an accident. It's only when you are outputting information (like talking to someone) that the distraction seems to interrupt your driving skills. Don't try it on the racetrack, however ... just for safety sale.
  7. MikeKardec

    An Affair to Remember (The Movie and The Loss of Depth in Modern Romance Film)

    I know, North Korea takes over the US! Anyone ever see The Mouse That Roared? I really like Bergman is a lot of films, not her fault I have problems with Casablanca, it's the part ... so passive it even disturbed me as a child. I find a LOT of Casablanca funny, whether it was intentional or...
  8. MikeKardec

    An Affair to Remember (The Movie and The Loss of Depth in Modern Romance Film)

    I'm opening myself up to a terrible flame attack even if I'm really not being totally serious BUT I've always looked at the movie as two men who each trying to get rid of the useless and whiny Ilsa. You know, all that "you have to think for both of us," sort of garbage. Rick won, she goes off...
  9. MikeKardec

    Moore's Law

    You guys had to write with impressive efficiency, I remember using an Atari rejiggered to be an audio editing computer (one of the first) in the mid 1980s. If we went into the code and turned off the color for the start up screen we'd get more "recording time" going from something like 40...
  10. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    All the time in the shower ... got to get a SCUBA divers note pad!!! Here's my theory: We only have a thimble full of conscious capacity. 40 bits maximum, 16 bits was chosen for CD reproduction because it's a more likely number, most people chug along on less. But the content processed by...
  11. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    An old screenwriter friend of mine used to say, "we get paid a lot of money to make things simple." Meaning, it's very easy to write something that is one degree more complicated than it needs to be, while getting it just exactly as complicated as it needs to be is the superbowl of writing. I...
  13. MikeKardec

    Moore's Law

    I think it was Neal Stevenson who called early hackers ... "clackers." Cute and appropriate. And I love those tubes ... my old VW dealer had them in a building that was not very old. I always thought they'd be great for delivering hot dogs from a drive up stand. The soft drinks would be...
  14. MikeKardec

    Moore's Law

    I'm guessing we'll go from wear-ables to surgically implanted systems. Imagine having your eyelid view screens hacked! Not for me. Cyberneticly and mechanically enhanced humans may be the upper or dominant class, a whole step up from having the wherewithal to get a good education. I'm...
  15. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    He could use some of that engineering ability to figure out how to build the compact mother of all garages ... perhaps the aunt of all garages. Seriously, building is always insanely more expensive than you planned and you have to live somewhere while you do it. You also have to be sure sure...
  16. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    In my limited experience I've rarely seen this in big business in the early stages of setting up a business, excellence seems to be the main goal at that point and hiring tends to search for the best employee at an artful balance to cost. It's later when belt tightening occurs and cuts are made...
  17. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    One of my most amusing experiences was watching a number of Australian film crew friends, who somehow assumed no American could really know about or deal with "real" labor unions try to deal with the bewildering array of American entertainment unions and locals and all. I think they'd been told...
  19. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    You're scaring me ... no wait, it's the idea of building that's scaring me. I've only done remodels and building scares me. How about finding a great place and just building the mother of all garages?
  20. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    The internet is the equivalent of having a five year old in the house! I'm a car guy and have the whole place torn up to build extra parking. I keep looking lustfully at my neighbor's house and hoping he'll decide to move. That would be crazy expensive (like take-my-blood expensive) but it...
  21. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    It is ...but I meant something beyond that that still balanced but did not overly antagonize those forces. Something that allowed an economy to function and progress without so much emphasis on growth. Far too many of our past theories for all sorts of things, environmentalism for one, seem...
  22. MikeKardec

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Coming up with a functioning theory of ... I'll say economics but that my be too technical or particular ... that allows both the adherents and forces of capitalism (which has kept changing over the last 400 years so it is adaptable to some extent) and socialism (which capitalism needs a certain...
  23. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Thank you! ... and, yeah, got no problem with chocolate.

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