What's Sci-Fi Got To Do With Global Warming?

Tobias Buckell's "Arctic Rising" has been on my radar for a while now, and I recently got his book so when I saw the below review, I figured it was fate telling me something.  Also, recently taking a class that was basically "Geography of How People are F*cking Up the Planet" got me thinking along this vein.  Take a look.

MIND MELD: Ecological Sci-Fi

Lost . . . Again.

I recently decided to re-watch the television program Lost.  Part of the reason is because I'd recently finished watching all of 30 Rock on Netflix on demand and needed something to watch, and more importantly it would give my girlfriend and I something to do together over Skype while she is in California.  We tried watching Battlestar: Galactica, and as great of a show as it is, it's kind of dark and that wasn't the mood that I was going for; we decided on Lost because she hadn't seen it, and I wanted to see if the ending made any more sense in retrospect.  So about a month ago we started watching an episode an evening and recently finished the first season.  My thoughts so far: I really like this show.  I mean, really.  I love it.  It's easy to forget how great the show is when your memory is tempered (haunted?) by the series finale.  But it's great.  Full of intrigue, suspense, drama, twists, turns, polar bears and weird hatches in the jungle.  And then there are the Others.  The enigma of their identity and the endless hypotheses were the highlights of my summers in the mid-2000s.  And now I get to watch that same glee and wonder vicariously through my girlfriend, who is thrilled to watch it. 

First post . . . or is it?

(insert cackling.)  Or not, whatever.  So, I had this little blog for a long time on blogspot but it was attached to a hotmail account that was hacked.  So, after my mom called me up to ask me why I was sending her links to penis enhancing products (interesting conversation: "Steven, is there something you think I should know?") I cancelled that email and moved to a gmail account.  But since I also have a school email address I decided that I really didn't need so much web real-estate and consolidated everything there.  Unfortunately, blogspot won't link to that address because it was tied to an already existent Google+ account.  Or something like that.  To be honest, I didn't read the fine print very close.  Long story short, I decided I might as well create a brand new account, with content that reflects my current life, aspirations . . . those sorts of things.  To that end, I give you the brand new (but not terribly improved) blog featuring me and my blogginess.