Rants, Raves, Reviews & Reflections

  Tokyo’s ‘internet cafe refugees’ and how coronavirus shone a light on Japan’s homelessness problem: Independent Net Cafe Refugees: Metropo...

Wikipedia: Mirin Dajo

A recent New York Post article stated that "Chinese authorities found more than 13 tons of gold stashed away in the basement of a forme...

I just came across a video of the demolition of Highland Heights elementary school, which I attended sometime around 1978 to 1982. I g...

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Adam Bacchus September 2nd marked the end of the 2013 Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock desert. As always there was plent...

Maybe I'm a little irritable this morning but I just read this ridiculous ABC news article titled  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Medical Care ...

Where does the time go?  I can't believe it has been two years since I started this blog!  This was actually my second attempt at bloggi...

The unbelievable animatronics of Gustav Hoegen.  The music is pretty annoying so you might want to watch it with the volume off.

I'm not much of a car guy but this video of the amphibious Scamander ATV is impressive. The Scamander was the brainchild of Peter Wh...

I'm amazed at the level of commitment and focus some people can direct toward ephemeral projects.

The most amazing useless contraption I've seen in a while

My wife and I went to see Hubble at the Imax this past weekend.  I got a kick out of this scene of an astronaut making a burrito in space. ...

When I was a boy, sometime between the ages of maybe 8 to 11, I remember my father had a subscription to a science/science fiction magazine ...

Turkish ice cream

I really don't have to say anything. I only have to quote Amanda. When asked if she felt it was ethically ok to continue using food sta...

Though not a financial success, Blade Runner has become a major sci-fi cult classic. Released in 1982 the film's plot takes place in a d...

Two Toronto teens launch a weather balloon carrying that fearless adventurer LEGO man into space. Pretty cool, here is the news report. ...

The other day I was watching a TED Talk featuring Bunker Roy, an Indian social activist. I wanted to find out more about him so I did a goog...

Though it is easy to get bogged down by the nuts and bolts of our daily lives, I think it is important to step back and reflect upon all the...