I may have mentioned once or twice before that I’m a fan of the game and the storyline of Halo, the single most successful franchise in video game history. The basic storyline through three (soon to be four) video games is a interstellar war between humans and aliens as played through John 117, a genetically-enhanced [...]
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Occupy Wall Street: Special Victims Unit
There they go again: Police Thursday identified an Occupy Wall Street participant who is wanted for raping a fellow demonstrator and then throwing her over a second-story park railing earlier this week. The NYPD released a photo of suspect Jackie Barcliff, 44. Detectives believe met his 56-year-old victim during previous Occupy activities, police said. After [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Halo 4, or, why my debut novel will probably have to wait another year
Of all my vices, my addiction to the Halo series of games is easily the worst in terms of time suckage. It also looks like there is a very good possibility that Halo 4 is going to keep that going strong, as the new graphics and preview video indicate. Of course, maybe if I get [...]
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I’m a little groggy after staying up well after midnight to finish a 576-page novel I’d only picked up yesterday morning. My head is still spinning, trying to digest a work of fiction nine years old that reads like a near-term future history and nightmare rolled into one. Matthew Bracken’s Enemies Foreign and Domestic was [...]
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It looks like you might be in for a nice light show tonight depending on where you live, as a “massive” solar flare is heading this way. A powerful flare erupted from the sun Thursday, Jan. 19, unleashing a plasma wave that may supercharge the northern lights for skywatchers in high latitudes this weekend. The [...]
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