October 17, 2007 Who Am I? written by Steven Barrymore SCANNING THE RADIO Late at night, at the age of 17 in the mid-1970′s, I was listening to the radio in my bedroom. MP3 players and the computer for home use were not invented. So our main distraction for entertainment was watching television or listening [...]

June 14, 2010 Typewriter With A Split Personality written by Steven Barrymore I am a sucker for technology, old school and new. I came across a combination of old and new tech in a YouTube video that really caught my attention. Developer Jack Zylkin, a is a reclusive genius with 57 cats, according to his [...]

June 23, 2008 Online Social Networking written by Steven Barrymore I have dabbled in online social networking. I have failed at online social networking. I do understand that each online social networking site is a ‘community’ of like-minded people. There is an etiquette to online social networking, of which I bungled on one popular site. [...]

January 13, 2008 written by Steven Barrymore photographs by Steven Barrymore FROM THE FILM COLLECTION Taking some time off. The Being of Life articles will return next month. Below are some favorite images from a collection of slides, photographed circa 1980′s in San Francisco. These scenes were photographed with Leica equipment (Reflex and rangefinder). Image [...]

January 31, 2009 The Amicus Brief written by Steven Barrymore The words Amicus Brief, read like an action movie title. And there is plenty of action swirling around California’s Proposition 8 (same sex marriage). The opponents, 40 law firms and other interested parties, to California Proposition 8 have filed an Amicus Brief with the California [...]

May 23, 2010 Would Tesla Be Proud? written by Steven Barrymore Society is turning green and not with envy — with environmental conservation devices and systems shrinking in size, offering a bigger bang for the buck. Solar Aero, a New Hampshire based alternative-energy organization has developed a wind turbine generator. And this is not a [...]