Author Archives: Sparhawk

The clock is ticking. Chances are Terri Schiavo will be allowed to die in peace. Time flows and minutes and days pile up like autumnal leaves. Chances are time, the great equalizer, will rule above all judges and members of … Continue reading →

It isn’t because I was a bonafide fan of Star Trek TNG that I like Wil Wheaton. I like the guy because he is one of the most candid, warm, down-to-earth, hard working, self-abnegating persons the bestiary of Hollywood has … Continue reading →

I just read in the news that Reggie Roby died this morning. This just a few weeks after Reggie White died at his home. Both men named Reggie. Both men 43 when they died. Both successful and retired NFL players. … Continue reading →

I just read something funny in the New Yorker magazine; the paper version, mind you, on this week’s edition. It was a commentary about the state of affairs in the European Union titled Pigs Must Play: Does it even include … Continue reading →

Ray Kurzweil is at it, again. There is a very interesting article about his latest book, Fantastic Voyage: Live long enough to live forever, at Wired.com. I won’t speculate about the possibility of ever achieving such a feat, it is … Continue reading →

Lo and behold! I finished redesigning my photoblog, Pintando con Luz. Just a place to paste some of the many pictures I take. Always in pursuit of angles, shadows and highlights. I hope you like the pictures.

Well, I haven’t gone anywhere. Always here, following the same routine. I’ve been doing a lot of reading though. Online and off-line, something that would make my pen-pal, Joel Biroco, happy. I don’t have many excuses for not writing. I … Continue reading →

“…the fallacy that good is limited by evil, and that you cannot receive any good except through eliminating the corresponding evil by realizing it and beating it back. In this view, life becomes a continual combat against every imaginable form … Continue reading →