Amusing &Video Eugene Fischer | 28 Jan 2011
I Have No Idea If This Is Real
And I don’t care. It’s supposedly the intro to a Russian knockoff of MST3K, and I love it unreservedly.
Archive for January, 2011
Books Eugene Fischer | 28 Jan 2011
Recent Reading (Jan 2011)
I finished four novels this month, all of them highly engaging. • The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi — I finally got around to reading the most celebrated SF novel of last year. I was already a fan of Paolo’s short stories, and this novel shares a future with two of his best, “The Calorie [...]
Texas Eugene Fischer | 24 Jan 2011
Kickstarter Documentary on Texas State Board of Education
I’ve written before about how the Texas State Board of Education has been hijacked by ideologue fundamentalist Christians, and how this has repercussions for the entire country. (See here and here.) There is currently a project on Kickstarter to fund the editing of a documentary about creationist Don McLeroy, longtime chair of the TSBOE. In [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 24 Jan 2011
Synesthesia
Director Terri Timely’s short film of blurred sensory boundaries.
Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 21 Jan 2011
The Continuing Adventures of My Haiku
Remember how I wrote a haiku last week for a contest to have my name given to a character in John Scalzi’s next novel? I won. That’ll do, haiku. That’ll do.
Blog &Video Eugene Fischer | 18 Jan 2011
Video Distraction
Work is consuming my days and rehearsal for the sketch show I’m going to be in come February is consuming my nights, leaving me largely offline. To kill some time, please enjoy a favorite cartoon from my childhood, “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics.” It’s a collaboration between Chuck Jones (of [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 13 Jan 2011
Repost: My Path to Differential Equations Success
This is not my first blog. There have been others, some euthanized and some abandoned. The ruins of my former blogs are filled with rotten links and gutted by expired hosting. There is, though, an occasional post worth saving. This was originally posted on May 14, 2008. — Some time in 2005 I was studying [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 13 Jan 2011
Rhawn Joseph Update
Remember Rhawn Joseph, the misogynist creationist crackpot who runs with the wolves? His paper on concubine husbandry for Our Men in Space has just been given a highly credulous writeup by the science and tech news aggregator, Slashdot. Shame on you, Slashdot. I’d encourage others who typically enjoy the site to comment against it being turned [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 13 Jan 2011
Nature by Numbers
Cristóbal Vila (www.etereaestudios.com) has created a gorgeous short film exploring natural structures that exhibit the golden ratio.
Blog Eugene Fischer | 12 Jan 2011
I Have Written A Haiku
This is not common practice for me, but I have been drawn out of my poetry-opaque shell. You see, John Scalzi is currently running a contest the winner of which will be Tuckerized in his next book. The challenge: For the contest, write a haiku from the point of view of some who is either about [...]
