The Martians are Invading

It was on this night, October 30, 1938 that an episode of the American radio drama anthology series, The Mercury Theater on the Air performed an episode which was an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel “The War of the Worlds.” (1898) The Columbia Broadcasting System radio network aired the program which was directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles. The Mercury Theater on the Air was radio program that played without commercial breaks and had a program playing that was repeatedly interrupted as the main show was presented as simulated news broadcasts for the first two thirds of the 60 minute broadcast, which suggested to many listeners that the news broadcasts were of an actual alien invasion...

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The Mayan Pyramid at Coba

During the week of October 20 th to the October 27 th of 2012, I went on vacation to the Yucatan peninsula.  So the next few blog posts that I do will be about observations, relating of activities, thoughts about aspects of my vacation. One of the excursions I participated in was a visit to the Mayan Pyramid at Coba. This archaeological site lay deep in the jungle and almost untouched until the 1970’s.  As part of a tourist initiative that started with the construction of the tourist hub in Cancun, the Mexican government built a road to Coba and cleared a section of the jungle to make a site for visitors.  Coba is still an active cutting edge modern archaeological site.  The visitors are allowed...

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When should you give up?

When should you give up? It depends on the situation, now doesn’t it? If everything I want is to be President of the United States, I should just give up!  Let’s face it the smartest people in this country would never accept that job even if it was just given to them. If everything I want is to become the King of England, I should just give up! If everything I want is to marry some person who is already happily married and has their own family, I should probably give up and find another person. If I was a small country with an army smaller than the registered hunters in just one state of the United States, but all I want is to conquer the United States of America, I should probably just give up. If I was a pirate...

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What are you looking for?

With this new way of reaching out to people it often makes me wonder who is really out there on the other side of all this social media. There is MySpace, Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, and many other outlets through which people can connect to others via the Internet.  There are Book sites, like Goodreads or Shelfari, which I am interested in almost anything to do with books, education, the proliferation of useless knowledge, and raising the IQ of the masses.  For those who just enjoy pictures, links, like a giant virtual scrap book there is Pinterest!  For videos of all sorts, serious, funny, promoting, previews, whatever, there is YouTube! I am not even going to touch on or delve into the sites for particular...

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The Battle of Positive Thinking

I am blessed with several people in my life that I cannot escape from who are flawed beyond repair.  Knowing these people has made me totally disregard the idea of Karma, because of continually seeing rotten foul people get their way and continually being blessed for their horrid in-human behavior.  It has from time to time made me question my faith in what I do believe in. These blessed people can't comprehend much less handle the TRUTH! It is a daily battle to remember that their ranting and raving, their negative attitude towards situations, their demeaning and belittling of their fellow human beings is THEIR PROBLEM.  It is their problem, not mine.  If I take it personally, if I accept the crap they spew about,...

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Time Travel

As a Science Fiction writer, you could say I am obsessed with the concept of time travel.  Both of the books I have E-published so far contain and deal with aspects of traveling through time. To the disappointment of my fans I have not described the apparatus of the time machine components in adequate detail, for the sole reason that I do not know how to build a real time machine.  It is my firm belief that Time Travel is possible, and aspects of it have either been done or experimented with already in our knowable past.  Just as I feel that anti-gravity, if that is what you would wish to call it, has been achieved and demonstrated repeatedly.  If and when this kind of technology is declassified to the point it can...

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