Blog &News &Video Eugene Fischer | 10 Aug 2010
Here’s a roundup of some things that are worthy of note. • The very best thing to happen recently is Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, overturning prop 8 and granting homosexuals the right to marry in California. The whole decision can be downloaded here, but there are articles all over the place [...]
Physics &Science &Video Eugene Fischer | 21 Jul 2010
Inspired by a conversation with a friend, and my growing interest in Erik Verlinde’s entropic construction of gravity, here is a video of Raphael Bousso of UC Berkeley giving a fairly non-technical lecture explaining the holographic principle. Dr. Bousso does a good job of building up to concepts like Planck length and Schwarzschild radius (a [...]
SF/F &Video Eugene Fischer | 04 Jun 2010
I’ve been in blog hibernation for a while, and it may continue a while longer, but this meme caused me to stir–if for no other reason than because I want this list of writers in a place I can easily find it. First, the wonderful 3 minute video that inspired it: Then the meme: Bold [...]
SF/F &Video Eugene Fischer | 13 Apr 2010
That’s what I’ve heard, anyway. And I think I can scrape up that many. First, some good news: my story “Husbandry” was given an honorable mention by Ellen Datlow for her anthology Best Horror of the Year Vol. 2. Thanks so much, Ellen, I’m thrilled to make your longlist. Next, a digital version of the [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 16 Feb 2010
Now that the Winter Olympics are here and people in America, briefly, care somewhat about curling again, I am suddenly reminded of the great good fortune we all had that the last Winter Olympics happened in a year when Jonathan Coulton was forcing himself to write a new song every week. And one week he [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 24 Jan 2010
There’s a neat video going around of a hunting strategy pursued by bottle-nosed dolphins in shallow waters. They swim in tightening circles and use their tails to make fences of cloudy water to trap schools of fish: Very cool. But at the end of it good Mr. Attenborough pronounces that dolphins are the only known [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 20 Nov 2009
Because I miss her, I wish I’d learned of her work years earlier than I did, and because Molly Ivins’s insights in 2004 are still more relevant than what most commentators who are actually alive have to say. (Video is about half prepared talk, half Q&A, and filled with both the brilliantly funny and the [...]
News &Texas &Video Eugene Fischer | 19 Nov 2009
So way back in 2005 the Texas legislature, in its alarmingly finite wisdom, passed an amendment to the state constitution to outlaw gay marriage. So eager were our elected representatives to protect us from the loathsome evil of same sex unions, it seems they may have overshot the mark somewhat and protected us from all [...]
Video Eugene Fischer | 18 Nov 2009
“A man is he who pisses against a wall!” “That’s where we’re heading in this country, my friends…. We got a buncha pastors who pee sitting down. We got a president of the United States who probably pees sitting down. We got a buncha preachers and leaders who don’t stand up and piss against a [...]
Amusing &Blog &Video Eugene Fischer | 22 Oct 2009
I’m been sick in bed all day, and the pressure in my sinuses seems to be pushing directly on the being-vaguely-pissy center of my brain. But as many of my friends are sick too, we can all goof off on twitter together. KatWithSword Have just learned that I am being nominated for a postdoc fellowship. [...]
