Right after grad school I started working on a dream project of mine: A location-tied message posting app. After a lot of consideration I decided that the best way to implement this idea was as a Twitter client, and so, Landburd (now in beta!) was born. At its most basic…

Dumb science fiction done well — Last night I walked to my local single screen theater, bought a pint of pale ale, and settled in to watch what was probably the best sci-fi action flick I’ve seen in years. Maybe even in… decades? It is that hard to think of a better one. First, let me…

… and Every Other Twitter Shit-storm Du Jour — You do not get to tell people whether or not they are offended. Comedy is not a sacred place where everything is allowed. Intention is not a free pass, but it counts for something. And when language diverges from intention, this is the place to start a dialog. Patting yourself and your opinion on the back doesn’t help anyone grow.

Animated GIFs have been kind to me. The small amount of Internet fame I’ve managed to garner is due mostly to a very niche GIF-related project I finished last summer. So lately I pay a little more attention to the format, and yes, the Great Pronunciation War often weighs heavily…

An Overdue Review, Submitted For Partial Credit — If there’s one quality that most science fiction is sorely lacking it’s the presence of a light touch. A movie with a scope of action that encompasses the fate of an entire world, galaxy, starship or what-have-you often has to sacrifice human nuance in the service of advancing the plot…

In Which New Methods Of Human Flight Are Discovered, and The Facts Are Reconsidered — I’m something of an armchair critic of armchair critics of GMO food, but lately I’ve been making an effort to firm up my stance on the matter. One of the first hard-science-citing articles that you can come upon when searching for the dangers of GMO food is written by a…

A comprehensive manual to watching Star Trek with other nerds on the Internet — NEWS (7/7/14): The @tweetTrek account now has an automated voting system for selecting an episode. To use it tweet: @tweetTrek vote [series code] [episode code] (e.g. ‘@tweetTrek vote TOS 2x06'). You can get the right codes for an episode by finding it on en.memory-alpha.org, …

And I Need To Take The Antenna Off The TV Before It Destroys Me — Only in rare circumstances do I permit the wretched presence of over-the-air, old style TeeVee on my monitor-cum-televisions. The Olympic Games are one of these times. Downton Abbey was another. But carelessly leaving the antenna attached as I have invites the possibility of all manner of filth into my home. How long before I decide that I need to “give Fallon another chance” or that I should “put on the local news for weather updates.”

Lately I’ve been in the bad habit of trying to express complicated ideas on Twitter. An inevitable result of these endeavors seems to be about five-to-ten shitty tweets in a row. The ideal solution is what you’re looking at: an in-between style bloggy type thing that’s bigger than Twitter, but not as complicated as WordPress. Less shitty tweets. More complete thoughts. Enjoy.