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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Thursday, 15 October 2009 |
I’ll tell you one nice thing about the H1N1 virus, it opens up a lot of time for home entertainment. After getting virally stomped last week, I spent an alarming amount of time in the Dyscern World HQ Labs digging into the DVD stack. At one point, I formulated an awesomely complex theory regarding Marxist-feminist subtext in the John Hughes oeuvre. But that was probably the cough suppressant.
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Friday, 17 July 2009 |
“Is that a lunar landing module in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?” A girl tried using this joke to pick me up last night at the big NASA party in Pasadena. Not a bad opening line, and turns out she had the science to back it up. Turns out the computers used in the Apollo 11 moon landing had the approximate computing power of a modern cell phone. So bear this in mind. Many of the items available right here at Dyscern are powerful enough to navigate a manned spacecraft to the moon.
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
Grandpa, circa 2055: Why, when we were kids, we played our video games with a console and a TV set! We didn’t have no fancy holographic displays or biosoft wetware! We used a control pad, with buttons – and we liked it! If you were really lucky, you might have a plastic dance pad on the floor! And our games came on compact discs – in a box! With booklets! None of this brainwave molecular ethercasting! You kids today are spoiled rotten…
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
Well, I just finished up one of my biggest and most ambitious research projects this week. This is a task that has taken me, literally, an entire calendar year to complete. I worked in fits and starts, but usually devoted several hours every week to the project. On balance, I must say this has been the most rewarding experiment in recent years. To wit: I watched Seinfeld -- The Complete Series DVD box set. Yes; all of it.
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