• Brent's Toys

    Brent Buys a Hydrogen Toy Car

    Now that I’m self employed I’ve found that I have had to create my own ‘progression system’ to help keep myself motivated. So I pick out ‘toys’ and after reaching certain writing goals, I buy them. Now the point of this is to buy things I don’t really need, but will maybe amuse me or the kids for a bit. Now I’ve always been interested in the hydrogen fuel cell and I was curious to see one in action. So my latest gift-to-myself is the H-Racer 2.0 from Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies. It only took a couple days to arrive and is what it looked like after I opened it…

  • My Life

    Cars vs Trucks

    With two young boys I watch a lot of movies. One particular favorite of theirs is the 2006 Pixar film, ‘Cars’. I enjoyed the movie the first few times but now when I watch it I do find that my mind tends to wander. I often wonder, for example, what has happened to all the humans. It was probably the 100th viewing that I finally noticed the connection between Cars and the Stephen King short story ‘Trucks’ (which became the movie Maximum Overdrive). If you haven’t watched Cars the basic premise is that vehicles (cars, trucks, whatnot) rule Earth. There are no humans, just animate vehicles. In Maximum Overdrive there…