Obituary — Robert Elsworth “Bob” Elyard, born January 26, 1944, died January 19, 2019, of heart arrythmia as the primary cause of death, followed by complications from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska. Bob Elyard was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Curtis Hartman Elyard…

Google Plus is closing down in April. When that happens, I will be an ex-user of the service. Possibly no big loss, because social media is terrible right now, but this has certainly become a thing of late: platform is created, then is sold off to a clueless buyer who…

Elasmosaurus is a Pain in the Neck — This piece was definitely a challenge overall. Once the overall issues were resolved, I was actually able to throw about two weeks at this painting in order to complete it on time for our art show in May. Even so, it would have been really nice having an extra month…

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“War” is an easy metaphor often used to describe a given competition, and companies sometimes exploit our tendency to attach ourselves to tribal modes of thinking in order to move product. In the case of a few media companies in competition with one another, war isn’t a valid metaphor, it’s…

So the Stormer has been kicked off Godaddy and now Google. Good. “But freedom!” comes the inevitable cry from the plushy, soft-core right-wing extremists who exist only to erode civilization. So what? They violated the website registrar’s terms of service, so they’re not entitled to service. …

It’s doubtful that this juvenile Dolichorhynchops is ever going to be a household name, but like some of the others in my “Electro-Tiki” series (like Guidraco or Psittacosaurus), I wanted to create something different... …And to include a few ammonites. Yes, a few. And therein lies a slight cheat on the entire conceit behind this series…

They really know how to dull Hanlon’s Razor.