Chapter 1 – The Cave Bear Hunt In the dawn glow from the sky hanging just above the tree tops, a small group of young men and women met just inside the gates of Cave Bear tribe to say their goodbyes. Kael’s father thumped his leather-covered chest proudly in salute and symbolically gave him the […]
Mike
Born in the wilds of Michigan, I once bought a Toyota and was forever exiled from the state. I migrated to a place in Alabama with more advanced degrees per capita than most of the East Coast and enjoy boating and fishing on the beautiful Tennessee River.
The Last Confession of the Clockwork Pope
Chapter 1: The Brass Papacy The rain came down in sheets over Rome, turning the cobblestones of the Via della Lungara into rivers of black water that carried the city’s filth toward the Tiber. Father Lorenzo Vanni—though he had not been a father of anything for seven years now—stood at the window of his cramped […]
The Titan Protocol
THE TITAN PROTOCOL A Novel PART ONE: THE AWAKENING Chapter 1: Wrong Skin The first thing Mara Voss noticed was that her cigarette was missing. Her fingers twitched against cold metal, searching the breast pocket that should have contained her Luckies. Nothing. She tried to sit up, and her body screamed in protest—muscles she didn’t […]
Celebrate Life, Not Death
It kind of weirds me out that so many people are busily putting up ghoulish displays of skeletons and gravestones at the same time that thousands are dying around the world. I know that Halloween is supposed to be harmless fun, mostly for kids, and that people love a touch of horror. Still, for me, […]
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A Poem is a Window to … the Soul?
I thought that it was appropriate to solicit a haiku for our first poetry entry. Luckily, it was quite easy to persuade the writer to contribute. I wish I could create haikus that were this good. I’m usually lucky if I can get it to rhyme. And still half of them sound like knock-knock jokes […]
Time Is Running Out – Energy Strategy Part 1
Our culture today is like a donkey starving to death when he is sitting right between two piles of hay, but can’t decide between the two alternatives. I am referring here to the tension between the two camps regarding energy policy: one says that we must immediately drop all use of fossil fuels at the […]
Open the Processors!
My bachelor’s degree was focused on computer architecture and logical design, and even though I don’t work in that field now, I still have a love for it. When I had a chance, I would sometimes implement “soft” processors within programmable logic and get them to operate in the context of a whole lot of […]
Cloudflare Has a Silver Lining
When I first looked at Cloudflare I was confused. I was looking for certain things in a DNS provider, and what they offered didn’t seem to correspond to anything that I was familiar with. I just figured that these were things that must be for big web sites for big companies, and went on to […]
The US Constitution is Not Optional
There is a recent kerfuffle in New Mexico where the governor has declared that armed carry will be banned in certain counties where the rate of shootings exceeds a certain threshold. I could talk about the Second Amendment and how this regulation certainly violates it, in the name of a “public health emergency” no less. […]