There Is Only War

In gen­eral, this blog is osten­si­bly about envi­ron­men­tal and dig­i­tal his­tory. This post, how­ever, marks a brief diver­gence from those themes, mainly in the inter­est of get­ting some­thing posted in June. As such and as a long time sci­ence fic­tion fan, I can­not resist post­ing these trail­ers for Halo: Reach: This last one, of course, has not­ing to […]

The Range

Ruger .270. Photo by: Richard. Last Thurs­day, Dave, John, and I went shoot­ing. We a great time and poked numer­ous holes in tar­gets (60 down – range myself) on the 100-​yard range. After shoot­ing, John took us to Phở Ha for huge bowls of Viet­namese noo­dles and we fol­lowed that up at Dave’s house with a few beers while we […]

Pub­lic and Private

I am par­tic­i­pat­ing in a panel dis­cus­sion on “The Pub­lic and Pri­vate in Media” as a part of an art exhi­bi­tion: The New Nor­mal. The New Nor­mal exam­ines the issue of pri­vate infor­ma­tion becom­ing less pri­vate in our tech­no­log­i­cal soci­ety. Regard­less of how well I present/​discuss today, this exhi­bi­tion has made me reex­am­ine my ideas of the private […]