Over the coming days and weeks, details and anecdotes in one story after another would chronicle an event that came to be known as the “Yamato Boom.” Additional theaters would join the lineup at a dizzying pace and the film would essentially remain in “roadshow” (circulation) status for...
The technique of regenerative feedback to allow infinite open loop gain coupled with degenerative feedback to realise extremely solid stability and freedom from drift is also used in the TS-375 A/U VTVM DC amplifier which is the subject of my previous post. I haven’t characterised the impeda...
In the show, there’s a great tradition that the Durrells start in the heat of the summer. They carry their dining room table out into the shallow water of the sea and set up their mealtimes – a la ocean – with their feet swirling around in the water. I love this idea! If you...
I had done interviews before with people like Ralph Baer and Steve Moore that were just set up to be stand-alone interviews, not necessarily for a certain story. This was opening up a whole new world of research for me: talking to people that no one else really ...
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine wh...
species. It was why we'd triumphed, and the Neandertals had failed. Weneededto see what was on the other side, what was over the next hill, what was orbiting other stars. It was what had given us dominion over the home planet; it was what was going to make us kings of infinite ...