Author Archives: Brian Alvey

I read two stories about the physics of superheroes last week. One was in National Geographic and it covered some opinions by James Kakalios, professor and author of “The Physics of Superheroes”. One of the things he says is “As any fan knows, the original explanation for Big Blue’s power and skyscraping leaps was gravity. He comes,Continue reading “The science of Superman”

Then you’re part of the precipitate.

Niki makes an awesome chicken paprikash. She learned it years ago when she was dating a Hungarian guy and she used to even make the noodles — the spaetzle — by hand. She’d make her own batter and grind it though a spaetzle maker and it would take hours. These days with two kids sheContinue reading “Well isn’t that spaetzle?”

Years ago when I came home from college, I got into a basketball arcade game called Run & Gun. It had two big screens, five-man teams and you could play two against two facing each other. Konami didn’t have licensing from the NBA, so they had teams like Chicago and Salt Lake City and theContinue reading “The Milkman delivers!”

We have another one of those CodeJams coming up soon and the pressure is on me to make it as interesting as our last one. This weekend Niki and I caught up on three episodes of Alias and three Sopranos. During one Alias they showed the Santa Monica pier, so I pointed out how we stayed nearby forContinue reading “Adventure’s his bread. Excitement’s his butter.”

A longtime reader and I have been having a debate about Krypto, the super dog that lived with Superboy (a.k.a. the Last Son of Krypton*) in Smallville. She read my post about Ace, the crime-fighting Bat hound and she took the position that Krypto was already the dog’s name before he was placed into the rocket ship thatContinue reading “You’re the Kryptonian now, dog”

My good friend Craig bought us all Yankees tickets last December. It was a crazy coincidence that our game fell on the day he would leave his company to come work with me. What a game. Niki’s favorite Yankee Jorge Posada did everything right. He settled down relief pitcher Aaron Small, survived a violent collisionContinue reading “Hip, hip, Jorge”

Last night Niki and I saw Depeche Mode at Jones Beach. We will be spending a lot of time there this summer. We used to see six or eight shows a year there and then we had kids. I decided that it would be a good thing to start breaking away for concerts again —Continue reading “Dave Gahan and me”

Interesting story in Valleywag yesterday about how I’m pissing off John Battelle by squatting his nom du com, JohnBattelle.com. I happened to be the registrant for all domains Jason had back in the Silicon Alley Reporter days and I don’t think I’ve ever met John Battelle, so it would be kind of silly for him to beContinue reading “Wag the blog”

Seeing Glenn Tilbrook play live rolls back time a decade or two for me. Of course closing down the bar he’s playing in at 3am rolls that clock forward again and then some… The Peak’s birthday show on Friday was a blast. We met some good people including some of the DJs, we heard a decent set from JeffreyContinue reading “Heart like a gun was just half of the battle”