PCA/ACA Conference: Day Two (It Begins)
The first day of the actual Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference proved to be one of the best of the entire event, not least because of my presentation at 2:30 PM. But we’ll get to that in a minute. The day began innocently enough. Luckily for me, I roomed with a particularly interesting […]
PCA/ACA Conference: Day One (Travel 101)
(A little overdue, but so be it.) Day one of my trip to the Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference in St. Louis, Missouri proved to be rather informative. First, I learned a few things about air travel: No matter what airport you go to, you will not get on the plane if you […]
10 Things You Learn About the Internet (in a couple months)
(Note: @amisuggests on Twitter remarked that this post sounds angry. I’m not sure why. Perhaps the tone in some of the items below suggests anger? For the record, this post isn’t actually an angry post, nor a reflection of some personal experience with the below items. These are general assessments of the Internet, some of […]
Hitchens vs. D’Souza: An Interesting Debate
I just got back from a debate at the University of Florida between Christopher Hitchens and Dinesh D’Souza on the truth of the existence of God. Truly an interesting, if not downright amusing, experience. Some quick thoughts from me:–Hitchens absolutely won the debate. It wasn’t because he made the best arguments one could possibly make […]
If I Had a Spaceship…
…with faster-than-light capability, without all the time paradoxes and other realistic nonsense that eventually ruined the fantasy of the science fiction pulps; if I had that, where would I go? I would head to every star that could sustain life, each with a reasonable habitable zone where planets might arise, or where we know planets […]
Healthcare, My Thoughts, and My Resolution
Most of you are probably well aware of the fact that the healthcare reform bill passed and has been officially signed by President Obama. I am both very happy about this, and also very nervous. There are some understandable questions about the bill, and while I would like to pretend that critics, including myself, actually […]