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Humphrey – A Short Story

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on February 1, 2017January 31, 2017

[su_note radius=”7″]Originally posted on Wattpad for a SciFi Challenge. The challenge was to write a story about a mad scientist and include three of a handful of sentences determined by the challenge panel. These have been marked with bold text in the story below. The story is really built around these statements.[/su_note] The Dome. That’s […]

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Shadow of the Beast – Flash Fiction

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on January 7, 2017January 6, 2017

[su_note radius=”7″]Originally posted in the Flash Fiction Phenomenon reading/writing group on Facebook.[/su_note] The hunter looked down from the top of the clock tower onto the village below. Lit only by the pale light of the full moon above him, shadows reached across the streets and alleys like fingers of the undead. Small fires throughout the village […]

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Intervention – A Short Story (updated)

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on August 22, 2016February 17, 2017

Note: the actual story has been added at the end of this post. A few weeks ago, I discovered another site for posting fiction, Upliterate. Although it’s still a bit rough around the edges, I figured I might as well post a few stories that I’ve posted elsewhere and see what comes out of […]

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Letting Science Stimulate The Imagination

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on March 14, 2016March 14, 2016

Last year, the movie The Martian hit theaters nationwide, becoming an instant hit. The movie follows the adventures of space castaway Mark Watney, accidentally left behind on Mars after an aborted mission to Mars. It follows his subsequent challenges as he uses his knowledge of science to survive in a place where no life has been known to survive.The […]

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Random Netflix Movie Reviews

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on July 30, 2015

I’ve been a Netflix subscriber on and off for quite a while now, mostly as a supplement to our satellite TV service. However, earlier this year I realized that we were paying quite a bit for our satellite TV service, even on one of the lower packages and we rarely spent enough time watching the […]

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Classic Amiga Games on Android

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on April 28, 2015May 29, 2017

Growing up during a time when computers like the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 reigned supreme, I have always had a fondness for the old school games of the 80’s and 90’s, for games produced on limited hardware where the option of adding another gigabyte of memory was not an option. 512K was a lot […]

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Merry Christmas!

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on December 25, 2014

Just wanted to take a brief moment to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! Those of you that visit here often are likely the person looking forward to one tech toy or another. Don’t get too sucked into that though…Christmas is about family, friends and faith as well, more than just loading the latest ROM on […]

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Android 5.0 Lollipop Upgrade for ASUS Transformer TF101

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on December 1, 2014March 28, 2016

Since I received my TF101 three years ago or so, I have gone from sticking with official firmware updates to rooting and loading the latest ROM’s available for the now aging tablet by ASUS. Currently, I believe it is loaded with some version of Android 4.3. When Lollipop was released recently, I wondered whether Timduru, […]

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Improving Battery Life on Moto 360

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on September 12, 2014

The Moto 360 has been on the market for a week. Since its release, a variety of reviews have been written. Much has been said about the battery life of the Moto 360, both good and bad. The comments have ranged from not that great to pretty good. My experience has been from the […]

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Welcoming the Moto 360

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on September 12, 2014

When Samsung put out their first smart watch last year, I had no desire to get one. It was square and seemed stuck in the smartphone form factor (like the new Apple Watch). I couldn’t think of a need for a smart watch at the time. Then, earlier this year, Motorola started teasing the Moto […]