News in all forms faces a real problem as fewer people are able to tell the difference. Everyone is caught now and then sharing something that referenced a source that was less than accurate.
Back For The Tannens
The thing about movies involving time travel is that you often have to watch them a few times before you have a good grasp on them. Back To The Future is a trilogy that I've seen many times over the past quarter century. The internet now dedicates and shares insights into everything from the p...
Cashier Jobs Are Checking Out
This week, Amazon published a video showing their new shopping technology. They are implementing it in brick-and-mortar convenience stores called Amazon Go starting next year.
Beyond Ridiculous
Furious Directing The director of a film has a huge impact on how the story is told. Justin Lin is an excellent example of this. He brings his perspective from the highly varied films Fast & Furious, Fast & Furious 6, Fast Five, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. This Star Trek films c...
The Music Of Star Trek
Classical Music In Space Since Star Trek: The Motion Picture, classical music has been at the core of Star Trek. Jerry Goldsmith created the epic music that defined most of Star Trek for decades, along with music for other movies I watch frequently like Total Recall, Alien and The Burbs. Denni...
Best Of Both Worlds
There is a common image being passed around and it has been irking me for awhile. While I agree that the image on the left is generally preferable to the one of the right, it assumes that one cannot love both nature and technology. Gullys And Programming My backyard in St.Thomas backed onto a gu...
Bruce The Cat
I have always loved cats. I come from a family of cat people. I've drawn cartoons about cats, I've written stories about cats, I've been obsessed with cats.
Cricket Breeding – Week Two
The cricket colony hasn't done exceptionally well. There are two things that I was concerned about that I believe were the causes: I used a normal high wattage incandescent bulb instead of a heat lamp; they are in the basement I didn't have a constant source of moisture Both of these thin...
Publishing Draft Nodes in Drupal 7
This article explains how to set the creation date of a draft article published in Drupal 7 to the current date, rather than the date the draft was originally created.