An Odyssey Exploring The Odyssey
by How meta: an odyssey exploring Homer’s The Odyssey. Scott Huler has a baby on the way and one last adventure in his soul. Picking up …
Author: Doug Cornelius
A Merry Christmas We Wish You
Nobody Liked Caroling With Yoda by Brian on Shoebox.
Paddling Underground
Joe McCarthy’s grandfather remembers when the Park “Hog” River used to run through downtown Hartford. But today, it’s gone. There are buildings where there used …
Make Magic! Do Good!
Dallas Clayton launched his writing/illustrating career with An Awesome Book! Now he is back with a bigger and more awesome book: Make Magic! Do Good! His …
Lessons From a Zombie Preparedness Class
Imagine a viral outbreak has occurred. It’s highly contagious and dangerous. It’s nicknamed the “Zombie Disease” because those killed by the disease seem to rise …
Fencing for Fun
The boy has taken up fencing. I wrote more about this in my latest post on GeekDad: En Garde! – Fencing for Fun
Show Time – A Tale of Reality Horror
Show Time takes place at some point in the near future, with the participants willingly subjecting themselves to a media portrayal of their jeopardy. The network …
Viva Le Tour
Saturday is the start of Tour de France, as most of the world’s best cyclist queue at the starting line in Liège, Belgium. I covered …
Eden on the Charles
If you’ve ever lived in Boston, Michael Rawson’s Eden on the Charles is a great book to help understand how Boston developed in the 19th …
The Power of Habit and How to Hack It
We are creatures of habit. We may like to think that our daily actions result from deliberation and willpower. But mostly they are the …
Archery and the Movies
There are three big movies coming out this summer that feature a bow and arrow: The Avengers, Brave and The Hunger Games. It just so …
The Big Roads
I admit that I have a fascination with infrastructure. It seems so natural that I could jump in my car in Boston and be in …
Cartel Tells Scary Stories About the Mexican Drug Cartels
Sylvia Longmire worked as a senior intelligence analyst for the California state fusion center and the California Emergency Management Agency’s Situational Awareness Unit, focusing almost …
Sex on the Moon
Ben Mezrich is back. His latest is “the amazing story behind the most audacious heist in history.” A NASA coop student stole a safe full …
Paddling the Dedham Loop
If you want to take a long paddling trip on the Charles River and don’t own a canoe or kayak, this is a great choice. …
Where Men Win Glory
I sat down to watch The Tillman Story after Netflix gave it high marks as a recommendation. It was a blistering story about the cover-up …
It’s All About the Bike
It’s July, so that means there will be lots of cycling at the Cornelius estate. These days there is much less time spent on the …
10 Reasons To Love the Tour de France
With the Tour de France starting this weekend, I wrote my annual Top Ten Reasons Geeks Should Love the Tour de France for GeekDad. Go …
Neponset River Greenway
The Neponset River Greenway is a plan to connect existing and proposed Boston parkland stretching across Hyde Park, Mattapan and Dorchester and the Town of …
Old North Church
He said to his friend, “If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch …