Carzy projects: pacelle

Want a crazy project? Write a video game using an embeded application scripting language, like VBA. Not a game like hang man, but a full fledged video game with graphics, sound and control. Think it can’t be done? Think it’s impossible? Take a look at Pacman for MS Excel! A little slow, a little clunky [...]

Yellowstone: The Living Laboratory

As someone with an interest in geology (and other ‘Earth’ oriented sciences), a recent article about Yellowstone caught my eye. One published account is: Yellowstone will blow again – no telling when. To see, study, observe and analyze geology in motion is tremendously fascinating. Equally intrigueing, from a social perspective, is that many leap to [...]

Breakfast with Beakman

Saturday, September 20, 2003, my wife and I attended Science Central’s Breakfast with Beakman. From the hit “Children’s” saturday morning science show, Paul Zaloom (Beakman’s real name) presented a fine show that made for fun entertainment. The only thing that bothered me was the kids. Many of them had that bored, arrogant, this-is-so-simple-it’s-beneath-me attitude, unwilling [...]