Author Archives: jamesdmacdonald

Climate Change At Walden Pond

Climate change is real, it’s happening, it’s measurable, and humans are causing it. Here’s some more primary date for anyone interested: a free e-book from the University of Chicago Press: Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods by Richard B. Primack In the late 1840s, Henry David Thoreau made copious notes about the naturalContinue reading “Climate Change At Walden Pond”

SFF Newgroup Posts

Accessing Newsgroup Archives by FTP For a very limited time (now through through mid-morning April 2nd, 2017), you may access the newsgroup archives using FTP. Here are the settings you’ll need: Host: archives.sff.net Protocol: FTP Port: 21 Encryption: Explicit FTP (also known as FTPS) Logon type: Normal/unencrypted Username: your own SFF Net username Password: yourContinue reading “SFF Newgroup Posts”

Crips Angle: Mind Frick

Okay, so who knew: there’s an entire sub-genre of Criss Angel parodies. (Not that there’s anything wrong with a guy who  makes a career in the performing arts, entertains people, and generally does no harm (except perhaps to the loonies who think that his Powers come from Satan and that he sold his soul, notContinue reading “Crips Angle: Mind Frick”