This was the shout of the pyro team when I worked on Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four. Here's the trailer for the movie: https://youtu.be/gcpmM-eTESI It's even got its own Wiki page, as it was never released and never intended to be released. It wasn't any more terrible than any other of Corman's films. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ but... Continue Reading →
News Flash
Today I want to propose a dream of mine, but first an aside. I've written a novel about a "perfect" society (and trying to find an agent for the novel at the moment; everybody cross their fingers for me, and if you want a copy, I'll send you the .pdf!) The society is not really... Continue Reading →
What Do We Need to Learn?
I'm fascinated, like all of us are, by the progress that LLM's have made and "artificial intelligence". I feel completely overwhelmed, though, as a teacher. I don't know what we need to be teaching. Okay, for one thing, I feel like we're all going to get hooked on using AIs for various things, and pretty... Continue Reading →
The Depressed Hairdressers
I visited the very south of South America once, a town called Punta Arenas. It was the way in and out of the Torres del Paine park, where I was going for a trek. Punta Arenas is windy, a lot of the time. It made it to no. 4 of the world's windiest cities on... Continue Reading →