Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.
–Gary Ryan Blair ( Mind Munchies: A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
I spent the weekend at Context 22, a science fiction/horror/fantasy [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Star Trek’
1 Sep
Writers aren’t old dogs
31 Mar
Paying the piper
“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.“
Star Trek’s Spock
Humans want things. We want to travel and have new experiences. We want to be loved. We want to be successful and have good self-esteem. We [...]
7 Jan
A strange, but appropriate, hero
The Captain has become quite enamored of Forrest Gump.
He read the book, then watched the movie, and even had his hair cut the same way as Forrest this weekend. (Just what I would have picked for a seventh-grader. Just.)
Of course, as always, he’s dropping bits of the script: “Stupid is as stupid does, sir!” “From [...]
1 Jun
Three More Hours a Day? Maybe? Please?
I’ve been a fan of science fiction as far back as I can remember.
My favorite tv show as a child was Lost in Space. (Now I just gave away my age…) Then the Trek franchise began. I read Heinlein and Norton, Tolkien and Herbert, L’Engle and Spider Robinson and dozens of others I don’t remember [...]
25 Apr
Reading the whole book
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine
It’s finally spring. I know this because we have tonight celebrated our annual spring ritual: setting the Christmas tree ablaze.
For years now, we have stashed the Christmas tree to dry out through the winter, and then set it [...]
7 Jan
Where has all the smart, funny sci-fi gone?
I suppose I could subtitle this: “OR WHY I NO LONGER WATCH THE FOX NETWORK.”
Yes, fellow sci-fi fans, this is about Joss Whedon’s Firefly, and follow-up Serenity. Each time I think I’ve got the sting out of my system that it’s cancelled, BAM, someone brings up the subject again and opens the wound. Nooooo not [...]
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