Ok what in the world am I doing here in Chelyabinsk, Russia? This quaint (in a Russian way) city, with its pedestrian mall (Kirova street) and its universities and its pine tree parks and its occasional colorful skyscraper in the middle of a maze of old cold war […]
Featured Book by Ray Else Our Only Chance: An A.I. Chronicle A different kind of Frankenstein. *Audio book now available! We spent much of day 2 near Nevyansk, digging for phantom crystals in a place Nicolay discovered when he was a teenager. The digging is hard work, and […]
Featured Book by Ray Else Our Only Chance: An A.I. Chronicle A different kind of Frankenstein. *Audio book now available! On my way to Chelyabinsk for work, I decided to stop at Ekaterinburg and do a 3 day Mineral Tour of the Ural mountains. You see, as a […]
On the 10 hour flight back to Helsinki from Bangkok on Finnair, I watched 2 very good movies: Broadcast News (about TV news in the 70s and a love triangle that does not work out) and BlancaNieves (a wonderful silent film about the daughter of a bullfighter in […]
Featured Book by Ray Else Our Only Chance: An A.I. Chronicle A different kind of Frankenstein. *Audio book now available! Ah that was a good massage yesterday evening. Practically a physical meditation. And yes there was confusion at the start. “What’s the difference between the 200 bhat ($6) […]
Featured Book by Ray Else Our Only Chance: An A.I. Chronicle A different kind of Frankenstein. *Audio book now available! Our first day in Bangkok, after the 10 hour flight from Helsinki, Steve and I took the modern metro MRT line to the Chatuchak Market. One of the […]
Featured Book by Ray Else Our Only Chance: An A.I. Chronicle A different kind of Frankenstein. *Audio book now available! Finland is a land of blond gentle giants. Teenage boys stand 6 foot 2 – the women all look fit. Too, in their manner, in the way they […]
