My father passed away this week. I wrote the following obituary for him. Beaucoup d’amour, Papa. Toujours! Hector David Gagné June 29, 1936 – March...

“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” — HAL 9000, from “2001: A Space Odyssey.” As for HAL… old HAL gets a bad...

“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”— Robert A. Heinlein I’ve always loved...

Warning! This post doesn’t have anything to do with politics. I used to believe in souls. Even after I’d given up on religion and gods,...

We’re losing the battle of ideas. Oh, and facts. I tell you, those things are strewn across the battlefield. Some are still twitching, but it...

“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man.“ These words are spoken in...

If you’ve spent any time on the internet—or better yet, in the world of quotable dead authors—you’ve probably come across this gem: “Everything in human...

If I try to trace my roots in Open Source, I’d probably have to go back to my early days in the mid to late...

What follows is a story about writing a song. A song about living life as a dog, which you know (at least in this part...

Oh, the humanity… In a brilliantly orchestrated symphony of calamity, our world pirouettes on the brink like a drunken ballerina in a minefield. Climates change...