Author Archives: Anthony C. Maki

Spring semes­ter is now over at MCTC, giv­ing me time to focus on a num­ber of things: Beta-testing Word­Press 3.0 Prepar­ing the frame­work for the revamp of City Col­lege News next year Clean­ing my liv­ing space Trav­el­ing to Europe for … Con­tinue read­ing →

After a mete­oric rise to the top of inspi­ra­tional talk-givers, I had my first and sec­ond TED talks this week. Con­tinue read­ing →

Tim Bur­ton was des­tined to direct a take on Lewis Carroll's story of “Alice's Adven­tures in Won­der­land”, and “Through the Look­ing Glass.” His mas­tery over creat– ing fan­tas­ti­cal envi­ron­ments has made him a great can­di­date for this under­tak­ing, and he … Con­tinue read­ing →

Biba, Erin. What Is Time? One Physi­cist Hunts for the Ulti­mate The­ory. Wired 2010-02-26 05:36. Ghose, Tia. Mil­lions of Tons of Water Ice Found at Moon’s North Pole. Wired 2010-03-01 20:24. Kravets, David. Law­mak­ers Punt Patriot Act to Obama. Wired 2010-02-26 15:52. Madri­gal, Alexis. First … Con­tinue read­ing →

Hey, y’all, this is very late as the cau­cuses are about to get under way in about an hour, but here are a few handy things to read and/or bring with you (this is some­what biased toward DFL caucus-goers): Get … Con­tinue read­ing →

Last week, my Android obses­sion led me to buy Google’s Nexus One, which meant that I had a G1 lying around. I didn’t really want to go through the process of sell­ing it myself, and I delayed any action until … Con­tinue read­ing →

After hav­ing seen a truly scin­til­lat­ing and visu­ally orgas­mic (so much so, in fact, that I devel­oped a headache) IMAX 3D pre­sen­ta­tion of James Cameron’s Avatar, I began to put together a pat­tern emerg­ing, to me any­way, in works of … Con­tinue read­ing →

Pic­tured left to right, Brit­tney (16), Kayt­lyn (6), and Aaron (5). Cross-posted on my Pos­ter­ous.

Cross-posted on my Pos­ter­ous.

I’m on the route 23 bus right now, and I just passed by an anti-foreclosure protest. You go peo­ple!!! (Apolo­gies for poor cam­era phone/low-light qual­ity.) Cross-posted on my Pos­ter­ous.