Bruno’s Child

Spent Father’s Day at the Blackbird Airpark and the adjacent Joe Davies Heritage Airpark located next to Plant 42 here in Palmdale.  This is a picture I took of the SR-71, which is setting next to an A-12.  They also have a U-2D and a Stealth Fighter (F-117). I’m not sure you can find all [...]

There is an excellent page over at The John Templeton Foundation, entitled “Does Evolution Explain Human Nature?”  It was created as part of the web-wide commemoration of the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin.  You’ll find a wide range of scholars there offering their answer in the form of essays to the question and [...]

I ride my bike every day for at least 5 miles… every other day, sometimes more often, for 10 miles.  It’s very flat here in the desert, but the wind makes up for this.  I’m guessing that I ride the equivalent of the steep hills of San Francisco some days with winds that get up [...]

(Photo by NASA) Telling on myself here… but this morning at 8:39 am I was awakened by the double-boom of the re-entry of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The landing occurred about 25 miles from where I live these days… at least until September. Growing up in the Antelope Valley, back in the sixties, sonic booms [...]

Here is a live performance on Letterman of “Chinese Translation”, from his 2006 album Post-War. Folks, it doesn’t get any better than this… Ward is a legend in the making.  He has also teamed up with the delightful Zooey Deschanel and released a terrific set of tunes under the name of She & Him… which [...]