Adventures in world travel, cold fusion, gene editing and elephant care.
Why, it must have been nigh-on 40 yahren ago, me and Boomer flew out to this space joint to try to meet some girls. When you're that age, you're interested in mating, you know, although you don't think of it as mating. Why are we driven to mate?... Propagate the species, I guess. I mean, …
Continue reading "Lieutenant Starbuck as an Old Man, Part 1: Remembering Boomer"
I'm just glad to be here, happy to be alive. I discovered through Ancestry.com (if their "hints" are correct, and if my acceptance of various hints is correct) that I have some Cherokee ancestry. Going back seven generations, there is a woman—Elizabeth "Quatie" Brown, later Elizabeth Henley, later Elizabeth Ross—my fifth great-grandmother. "Quatie" is apparently …
This World Has Lost Its GloryNosehair and I have started building a space elevator out behind the apartment. The trees give us pretty good cover, from the sun and park visitors and vandals and such, and we've really made some good progress.A space elevator is a device consisting in part of a cable, or tether, …
I have a pet elephant. His name is Nosehair. He’s a male adolescent, past puberty, but, in my opinion, a long way from adulthood. I’d love to post a picture of him, but he won’t let me. He’s very shy. Sometimes I can’t get him to leave the apartment. I wonder sometimes if he was …
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