Author: glenn

Copyright © 2007, Glenn Story Last night on the news I saw a story where there’s now a museum in the Midwest somewhere that has exhibits about creationism as an alternatives scientific theory to the theory of evolution. This story drove me crazy. The problem with creationism can be summed up in the sound bite… Continue reading I Believe in Science

Copyright © 2007, Glenn Story It was a long time ago, and I don’t remember a lot of the details. But I do remember the date: March 28. I know my parents drove me to the Induction Center in Los Angeles, but I don’t remember the time of day. I think they gave us a… Continue reading Anneversary

Copyright © 2007, 2011 Glenn Story This is the moment I have been waiting for: the screen is filled with a sequence of breathtaking, but stark, still shots at sunrise. The lower-third key reads “Dawn of Man”. We hear the trumpet fanfare of the opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. This is of… Continue reading Kubrick Films

This is about virtual machines.  I have been working with virtual machines since the days of CP-67.  I find them endlessly fascinating.

Copyright © 2009, Glenn Story “When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised.” From Finding the Still Point by John Daido Loori. The above quote is from a book on Buddhism. Of all the religions I have come in contact with Buddhism intrigues me the most. It intrigues me because it… Continue reading Must I Give up Duality?

Copyright © 2009, Glenn Story I can’t tell you the exact date, for it was many years ago–in the early 70s. I can, however, tell you the exact location: the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco, A large hall, holding over 3,000 seats, and boasting that no seat is more than 21 rows from the stage.… Continue reading Two Gurus

Copyright © 2006, Glenn Story So my daughter was driving in Santa Cruz, a town she’s not all that familiar with. It was late at night and the left-turn lane onto the road she wanted to take was closed. She decided to turn left from the through lane even though she couldn’t trigger the green… Continue reading Day in Court

Copyright © 2006, Glenn Story I have a program that tells me whose birthday it is very day. Today, it turns out is Elvis Presley’s birthday. Unfortunately, my Internet connection is down. So by the time you get this message, “the king’s” birthday will be past. Nonetheless, I decided to write a few reminiscences in… Continue reading Reminescences of Elvis

Copyright © 2006, Glenn Story It was something he had wanted to do all his life: witness a total solar eclipse. It had taken weeks of planning over literally years of time. It had cost him a lot of money. He had ended up on a cruise ship in the waters of the East Indies.… Continue reading After the Eclipse

Copyright © 2005, Glenn Story This morning I looked out my bedroom window I saw a squirrel running along the phone wire. He came to a spot where the wire overlooks a tree in our neighbor’s yard. He looked down, obviously contemplating jumping to the tree to gather nuts. The tree obviously represented both current… Continue reading Squirrel