R.I.P Dungeon Master

E. Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 - March 4, 2008)

Richard Feynman May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988

Today is the 20th death anniversary of Richard Feynman. Considering the state the world is now in, there could never be enough of Feynman*.




*Thanks to Alex de Campi for the sentence "There could never be enough of Feynman".

Things are changing faster than we can die

They don't make movies like this anymore

The trailer for Amsterdamned, one of the best action movies and the best Dutch action movie ever made.

New English Words

Bucknor: (n) (adj)
1. Temporary blindness leading to missing out on the obvious.
2. To be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
3. Situations leading to grave judgmental errors.
Usage: I feel bucknored by my boss; Life often throws a bucknor at you.

Benson: (n) (adj)
1. Something that legitimises a severe bucknor.
Usage: First they bucknored me and then they bensoned it! I am toast.
Also see bucknor.

For the context, read this.

The First Lady of Hard Case Crime in a Bookstore near You in Less Than a Month

Christa Faust's Money Shot will be released in February 2008. Check out the teaser.

2008 in Science: Part I — Experiments will start at the LHC in May

The Large Hadron Collider will start experiments in May 2008. It is expected to yield answers to the following questions among others:

1. Is the Higgs mechanism correct?
2. Why are there apparent violations of symmetry between matter and anti-matter?
3. Do extra dimensions postulated by string theory correct? If yes, can we see them?
4. What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy?
5. Why is gravity so many orders of magnitude weaker than the other fundamental forces?
   
   

As a science-fiction aficionado, I'm most interested in the answers to questions 3 and 4.

Merry Christmas from Eternia — He-Man and She-Ra XMas Special Part II

Merry Christmas from Eternia: He-Man and She-Ra XMas Special Part I

Jenna Jameson, Comic Book Heroine

The World Needs This Movie

Trailer for "Convoy Busters"

Movie trailer for Stelvio Massi's 1978 film Convoy Busters starring Maurizio Merli and Olga Karlatos.

Experience three minutes and 50 seconds of Maurizio Merli punching, shooting, and chasing criminals — on foot and by car.



Buy the DVD for the complete 101 minutes' experience.

It's 101 minutes well-spent.

A Ghostly Little Book

"I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.

Their faithful Friend and Servant,
C. D.
December, 1843."

On Christmas Eve, I give you, world, A Christmas Carol.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

John Gardner, R.I.P.

John Gardner, the man who brought James Bond to the 1980s, died on August 3, 2007, from suspected heart failure. He was 80. He will be missed.

Reading The Six Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly

And boy, is it a blast!

Stones is second in a planned trilogy of novels that began with Seven Ancient Wonders. It is Indiana Jones for the 21st century, against the backdrop of a Lord of the Rings-type battle between good and evil and dawning of a new age, set in the present day. Like its predecessor, Stones is full of exotic locations — Stonehenge, Three Gorges Dam, Abu Simbel — and frenetic, turbo-charged action, populated by impossibly heroic and impossibly villainous characters. There are some tender moments as well, those involving wunderkind Lily and the commandos who comprise her family.

Welcome to Kaushik's Lair

This is where I share with the world things that fascinate me: my favorite movies, my favorite books, my favorite comics, new discoveries in science and technology, and bits and pieces from my own writing.