Mike DeWolfe

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Recent Viridian Posts

I have been ruminating on the Singularity for some time. Rudy Rucker's PostSingular was a great story about an omniscient network that anyone can tie into at any time. I think that the Singularity is more than just about information. It's about transforming us into supermen. But to transform us into supermen, the current human race is going to have become extinct. If Verner Vinge's math is right, the Singularity will come into swing during my daughter's adult life, maybe after she's started a family.

The Next Star Wars Should Be Open Source

When I was 10 years old, I accidentally committed an intellectual property theft against poor George Lucas. Giddy with the euphoria of Star Wars, I wrote my own script for Star Wars part 3-- this would allow Lucas to make his sequel then they could do mine :D. It was all of the good screenwriting that you would expect out of a 10 year old (but likely better than anything Uwe Boll has ever done). It was fan fiction.

What Comes After Steampunk

There were lots of trends that geeks have latched onto in the last decade

Recent Fat Blog Posts

Drugs: The solution and cause of life's problems

I continue to hover in a state of non-weight-loss. The great thing with walking: it allows for decent results for the time you put in. The downside: it takes ALOT of time. What am I to do?

Walk it off

Years back, I started a severe diet. I dropped from 260lbs. to 200lbs. in three months; then 200lbs. to 170lbs. in the six months thereafter. It worked and it's not advised at all. One cornerstone of the dieting was exercise: about 6 miles of walking every day. I'm back at it.