How to Build a Sparring Lightsaber with Parts from Home Depot and Spare Parts (with thoughts on learning and haptics)

My cousin Ryan Cox is a longtime practitioner of a variety of martial arts including kung fu and tai chi. Ryan and his two older brothers–Ian and Jarret–grew up learning, sparring, and developing uncanny skill in hand-to-hand combat and weapons sparring. While Ryan and his brothers have developed rhizomic networks to enhance their abilities and pass …

David Carradine, 1936-2009

My buddy Chris reported on Facebook that David Carradine has passed away.  I grew up watching Kung-Fu, and I enjoyed his portrayal of Bill in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill.  However, I recently remember Carradine’s work as a voice actor reading John Twelve Hawk’s science fictional story about the resistance against the “vast machine” titled The Traveler. …