Ambivalent Engineer

Hollywood is in the process of buying congress and the FCC (as well as other bits of the government). They want rules and laws passed which...

George Lucas apparently shot most of Star Wars II on a 1920 x 1080 x 3 CCDs x 24 frames/sec. He's been arguing that Hi Def is just as g...

Remember model rockets when you were in middle school? The biggest engines I ever launched were Es. These guys started with Is and ended ...

One of things that makes HPC (High Performance Computing, i.e. weather, aerodynamic, vehicle crash and nuclear bomb simulation) so expensive...

I watched a Frontline program on the National Missile Defense program recently, while waiting to feel tired enough to go to bed. When Reagan...

I just got back from a trip to the UK to show my new baby off to all the relatives. The highlight, perhaps, was driving around Northern Ire...