tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75626956749437557712024-11-08T09:00:31.826-06:00News, events, and reviews on books, art, movies, and games relating to steampunk, live steam, and science fiction.gethralkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10456668695604963669noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562695674943755771.post-78425078441421179792016-10-29T21:19:00.001-05:002016-10-30T20:31:22.404-05:00

So,  I have been still doing research here and there, and one of the things that I help with is classification of data for large projects needing "extra eyes" to identify things that computers miss or have difficulty spotting. From looking for Higgs bosons to spotting glitches in gravitational wave detectors, these projects are anything from a method of training the software to better

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A touching story of dystopian society that longs for utopia. Based on a short story by Daniel H. Wilson, this short film was produced and directed by Giacomo Cimini and stars Lambert Wilson and Samuel Joslin.

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Jake von Slatt is an artist and tinkerer whose steampunk designs are renowned and have been featured in national media. Make: magazine's Youtube channel, follows von Slatt as he discusses his art and the world of Steampunk in general. You can find out more about his steam-powered and steam-inspired designs on his website, The Steampunk Workshop.

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Riding Light is a presentation of a photon (a packet of light) emitted from the sun and traveling for 45 minutes at relativistic speed. Through his shared vision, Alphonse Swinehart gives us a glimpse at, not only the speed at which light travels but, also, how insignificant the size of our home really is compared to our solar system - at the very least. The following comments about this musical

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GaryGo Engines from Michael Baldwin on Vimeo.

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I am going to flashback to several of the really good anime series' that I have come across in my life. Japanese animation has really added much to the steampunk genre, that to ignore it would be missing out on really great works of art and dramatic presentation. By no means are the order in which I post them on here an indication of quality comparison between them. The first one I will

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In the far future, humanity's first successful attempt to catch and study a comet is discussed between a master and apprentice as the beginning of the drive to explore the universe. This short film was shown preceding the ESA's presentation on the Rosetta mission's successful landing of the Philae probe on comet 67P. According to the ESA on YouTube, "Ambition is a collaboration between Platige

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I'm back, so to speak. I am about to get really busy again, but I thought I would take the time to catch everyone up on what's been going on since my last (forever ago) posts. I was working with a chap in England on turning a minitures tabletop game into a web version. However, since his promotion at his job, along with him getting married and having a baby, and then getting really active with

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Whew!! Life has been extremely busy of late. Between classes at the university and a separate web project that I am running, there hasn't been much time to grease the squeaks in the Flash Boiler. Nevertheless, I had to post a few videos that I found recently that all carry the steam punk theme. Instead of popping them up all at once, however, I plan on posting them as a series. First off, this

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Yet another Google homage to science, the search engine website has spelled their company name with "working" schematics of Thomas Edison's inventions to honor the 164th birthday of the innovative engineer. Aside from the obvious electric light, can you identify the other contraptions?    

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In a unique layout of their logo, Google opened a window into the steampunk universe on their search engine front page. With interactive features, the logo features a seascape that is framed with Nautilus-like trim. A handle to the right of the logo allows one to rotate the underwater view as if in a submersible. Any with motion sensitive technology in their Chrome or Firefox hand-held

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Now that I am settled in after moving 500 miles west, I have started my research again and have found a couple of nice pieces of contributions of video involving steam power and practical applications. From a whimsical entertaining piece of equipment to a whimsical entertainer, here are my latest finds: Simon Jansen of Auckland, New Zealand, shared his steam-powered record player with Make

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Here's a really well done set of DIY instruction videos, from LynxSteam, on a simple home-built flash boiler. The author also has other interesting instruction videos that I am going to be watching that deal with wind power.

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The move is finished and I have finally put the computer back together. Got the emails (mostly) checked, so I decided to get caught up on my shows on Hulu. One of the recommendations that the site has given me is one of the first live action sci-fi web series to feature the steampunk genre, called Riese: Kingdom Falling. As a web production, is generated so much interest last December that it was

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I recently read the preview short story, called "Expendables," by Orson Scott Card. It is a collection of episodic chapter prologues from his upcoming new book, Pathfinder. If anybody remembers the Ender series of books and the spin-off Ender's Shadow series, this next endeavor is a greatly anticipated return to science fiction for Card. Here is a 'trailer' for the first book in this new series

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Due to the recent news that I would be allowed to finish my degree at a University, I have decided to take up the offer. This requires moving the family closer to the campus, so we are in the process of packing everything up in boxes to go on the road. Moving is such an expensive endeavor, and I would not normally make such a decision; however, several factors have been involved in going

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As a way of explanation as to why I have embarked on this route to imagine a history rewritten, I submit to you a key element to which the steampunk past made possible could have hinged. A steam-powered device used for computation was imagined in 1837 by the amazing Charles Babbage, who called the contraption an "analytical engine". It remains one of the greatest inventions that ever was

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Well, I have been working on my piece of science fiction for some time, and am beginning to lay some groundwork to start on the first part of the novel. I am thinking of writing a few short stories to provide a glimpse of the world in which the novel takes place to introduce the characters and milieu. This will give me a chance to publish them as a test bed for gauging the success of the novel as

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