Author Archives: SJ
The new (and improved?) adventures of Tintin
Blistering barnacles! When I heard a couple of years ago that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson would be making a feature film about Tintin, my initial reaction was a mix of eager anticipation and mild dread. Though I’m no Tintinologist, I’ve read and … Continue reading
Greater fuels or greater fools? (part 2)
So if your eyes didn’t glaze over reading about neutrinos, hydrinos and doofusinos in my last post, you may be wondering why I think promoters of revolutionary new energy sources may be bullshitters rather than liars. And what’s the difference … Continue reading
Greater fuels or greater fools? (Part 1)
By now most of you have heard about some astounding new discoveries that may prove Einstein was wrong about a critical assumption – that nothing can exceed the speed of light. Whether or not further experiments corroborate the findings about neutrinos, … Continue reading
Publishers’ clearing house
Going, going, gone! No, not the book publishing industry – not yet, anyway. I’m referring to the atmosphere yesterday when I visited the big Borders store at Columbus Circle, which is closing its doors in a couple of days. Unlike … Continue reading
Libamáj!
When I was nine years old, my mom took me and my sister to Hungary, where she and my father grew up (we had been once before when I was three). Of course it was a long and expensive trip, not … Continue reading
Bandi
Tomorrow is my great uncle Bandi’s 100th birthday. When I mention to friends or neighbors that I’m traveling to Hungary to help him celebrate the occasion along with dozens of his friends and relatives the usual response I get is … Continue reading
Prius envy
If F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous (and apocryphal) line that “the rich are different from you and me” were updated from Paris in the twenties to Hollywood today then Ernest Hemingway’s reply might have been” “Yes, they can afford to be … Continue reading
Cacophony and cheese 