Shaka, When the Walls Fell Originally published atThe Atlantic On stardate 45047.2, Jean-Luc Picard leads the crew of the Enterprise in pursuit of a transmission beacon from the El-Adrel system, where a Tamarian vessel has been broadcasting a mathematical signal for weeks. The aliens, also k...
William Shatner, the venerable Captain James T. Kirk from the legendary Star Trek series was in Upstate NY a few weekends ago for an annual Star Trek Convention in Ft. Ticonderoga. While he was in town, he enjoyed a trip around Lake George on a friend's boat Inside The Rock's Vacati...
If the water didn’t overflow the shower room, it would drain out Ok, but a couple of times it had reached the door and flowed out onto the hall floor and down through the walls and become a huge problem, so he appreciated my having caught it and warned him. After that, I figured ...
We saw several dozen huge vessels queued up out in the Pacific in what they call the “anchor line”, awaiting confirmation that payment had been transacted before they entered the Canal and were boarded by a Canal captain, who guides the ship for the entire 50 miles of the passage. The ...
Jay Fenlason was one of Harvey's most ambitious students. Precocious and interested in nearly everything, Fenlason had a leg up on many of his peers, having discovered programming a couple of years earlier in junior high. "Programming was something I just fell in lo...
If you live on this planet, there'sa decent chanceyou've seen the classic Star Trek Episode, in which captain Kirk and several members find themselves in what appears to be another universe. These days, it seems the idea of themultiverse- many worlds--is having itsHollywoodmoment.Itsappeal...
A blog to record the journey of our 6 year old daughter Amber's progress, which began when she was rushed to the ER on March 22 2018 with a hemorrhaged tumor that caused a stroke, and the discovery that she has glioblastoma, a very aggressive form of brain cancer. We're going to ...
There was a magical day when we all picked up a book and fell in love. And know what? That book probably wasn’t perfect. (Top secret insider info:none of them are.) But the story wasfantastical, and we disappeared into our imaginations—and that’s what made us fall in love with ...
as resources per capita fell (for example, farms shrank in size), theearnings of workers tended to fall. At the same time, the need for taxes to cover what I am calling overhead expenses tended to grow. Tax rates became too high for workers to earn an adequate living, net of taxes....
I’ve since heard stories of the two prior offers, and it seems that they were both accepted but fell through afterwards. (The first fell through because the buyer was a bigamist, with wives in both the U.S. and Ecuador, which it seems made the purchasing paperwork impossible at the ...