A Quiz

I am: Arthur C. Clarke Well known for nonfiction science writing and for early promotion of the effort toward space travel, his fiction was often grand and visionary.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Tim Curry is awesome

Y'know, every time I look at the cast and writing lists for old cartoons, I get surprised by some of the big names who were involved. Even if they weren't all big then. Like today I found out Tim Curry did voices for Darkwing Duck. And according to wikipedia, he did voices for half a dozen other awesome cartoons too. No wonder I can recognize his voice so easily and think he's so awesome.

The Curvy Future

I recently finally figured out why when people want to make something look futuristic, at least these days, they make it smooth and curvy. It's because building stuff smooth and curvy is more complicated than building stuff with straight lines. It takes more complex machines or just more work, and more complicated math to design a car that's made of curved pieces yet can be made by automation, for example.

Of course, many years ago, the future was about straight lines, before machines became common that could make long chunks of straight material. So what the future looks like depends on what the present is able to do.