QuickQuiz: Time Travel Movie Sequels

Take my latest free QuickQuick and find out how much you know about popular time travel movie sequels and series'.

QuickQuiz: Famous Figures in Time Travel Movies

Can you figure out which of these famous dead people made appearances in popular time travel movies?

Quick Quiz: Objects Used for Time Travel in the Movies

I've just created a QuickQuiz - Time Travel Devices in Movies: How many objects used in movies as time travel devices can you recognize? Play this QuickQuiz now and find out.

Apocalyptic Novels Hangman - Free!

How many of the following end of the world movies can you name?

Hangman: Psychic Powers & Mutant Abilities

Trivia: Time Travel Film Adaptations

Hangman: Time Travel Movie Adaptations

How many of the following movie adaptations of time travel books can you name?

Trivia: Time Travel Books Made into Movies

From a list of time travel books, choose the one that wasn't made into a feature film.

Hangman: Time Travel Books Made into Movies

How many of the following time travel books that were later made into major motion pictures can you name?

50 Fireworks Photos

Fireworks, Piermont, NY, July 4, 2010

Just posted a new album of 50 fireworks photos to my Facebook profile. CLICK HERE to go take a look.

Doppelgangers, Anyone? http://ping.fm/z94Wi

Doppelgangers, Anyone?

Photograph by J. Kyle Keener for National Geographic

OK, so really it's the annual Twins Day Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio (as photographed by J. Kyle Keener for National Geographic). But it's inspiration like this that gives me some of these ideas I come out with like...

(spoiler alert! don't click if you don't want to know)

Isaac Pressman - A Free Will Flux Character Biography

Isaac Pressman was born in a Queens, New York hospital to Martin Pressman, a traveling industrial supplies salesman and his wife, Abigail (Gail), a sometimes substitute schoolteacher, sometimes one-woman child day care center, and raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Isaac grew up a confident, if unsentimental, child, frequently having to share his mother's attention with several other random children, yet always being the hub of all playtime activities (as it was, after all, his home, his toys). Also contributing to the development of Isaac's self-contained (if aloof) personality was that his father was rarely at home. 

When it was learned that Isaac's father was spending his time away with various regular girlfriends who peppered his northeastern regional sales route, Isaac's mother did the then unthinkable deed of filing for divorce. She got the home, custody of Isaac, and a tidy alimony. Isaac saw his father even less after that.

A naturally bright young man who spent much of his alone time reading books on history and National Geographic magazines, he attended Princeton University for his undergraduate degree in Journalism, under a partial scholarship and working random part-time jobs for the remainder of his tuition so he didn't have to accept his father's money. It was there at Princeton, while in his junior year beginning the coursework for a minor in Acting (he thought, as it happened correctly, that it would aid in his one day becoming a famous television news anchor) where he met the woman who was to become his wife, Paulette Anderson (though her friends always called her Piper for her luscious singing voice) a sophomore in the Musical Theater department. 

Graduating one year ahead of Piper, Isaac stuck around taking a job as an editor's assistant at a local newspaper until Piper could finish school and join him on his cross-country relocation to Los Angeles to get his Journalism Masters at UCLA. Their plans got delayed by an extra year and a half, however, as he helped Piper battle, and thankfully triumph, over breast cancer. Upon her recovery and completing of her undergraduate studies, it was off they went to California, an extra bundle in tow, which they didn't discover until a week after landing. 

In Los Angeles, Piper took little short-term singing gigs, like recording radio commercial jingles or playing Mrs. Claus at the mall every winter, so she could stay home raising their son, Caleb (or at least keep him close), while Isaac completed his masters degree and immediately landed himself a job writing briefs for the weekend anchors at WNN TV, the cable television arm of World Network News, the world's largest news media network. Three years later, Isaac had climbed his way up to become the network's (and the nation's) #1 weekday and prime time news anchor. Of course this left him little time for his family, and when his wife's cancer returned, and this time won, the world's most famous newsman was left a bereft husband and the ill-prepared father of a bitter and confused pre-adolescent boy.

At the start of Free Will Flux, his son 14 and his wife gone near 5 years now, Isaac is 46.

Wow - I want to do this! Walkway over the Hudson. Mom & Dad's 2010 Labor Day Weekend Sunday Activty. http://www.walkway.org/

Deleted Scene: One Small Step For Otto

Otto Tannenbaum stood before a swelling hole in the iridescent sky which hovered above a desert swarming with the desperate vestiges of mankind. Beneath these heaving dunes of flesh, not a grain of sand was visible.

Otto raised a foot. The desert held its breath. The foot that bore the weight of the world breached the threshhold of the rift. Otto glanced back, flashed a tenuous grin. His foot was gone where no man (presumably) had yet, and he was still breathing. 

Then the rift gulped him down like tossing back a shot, smacked its lips and sealed them tightly.

Otto and his so-called "Bridge" were both gone. The shepherd had deserted his flock and the sheep went wild.

Freak Show (Why No One Is Not One)

It's time to dispel a common myth that poisons our culture and tears at the very fabric of civilization itself, and that is the myth that there is anyone out there who is not a freak.

Society's idea of a civilized mind

tries to comply with a

contrived

media derived

modus operandi
noses, hands, and eyes

up tight, up to

the window display to find out

who they're about to be today.

Credit:NASA/GSFC/Cynthia Cheung.

Random Flux Alert! Rocks Move On Their Own in Death Valley Desert. NASA geologists have been trying to explain this for 4 years. http://ping.fm/Fpdt2

NPR just introduced me to this great site: ProPublica http://ping.fm/IwYGk

Responsibility

We are born innocent but we are not born alone. From the moment we come into this world we affect the world. I breathe out, you breathe in. You breathe out, I breathe in. We are all interconnected, each the butterfly's wing that shakes the earth. What I do affects other people. I am responsible for my words and actions. Only I am responsible for my words and actions. By taking care of myself, I take care of others. By loving myself, I make myself capable of love. My responsibility to the world is to be responsible for myself. When I gaze into the mirror, I see more than me.

AFP/AFP

Sci-Fi Inspires Engineers To Build Our Future : NPR http://ping.fm/rbxvD