Welcome to Roger's Photo Gallery

There's a lot of photos here. They are divided up by various topics such as portraits, work-a-day, and travel. Have fun browsing through these.

Three Faces Photography

These are my portrait photos from around the world.

Family Photos of recent years

Other Roger Adventures

SLICK PICS --pictures while taking classes at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)

Photos from various stays in Korea

Photos from other parts of the world

Vietnam War photos

Utah scenic photos

Evolution and Human Condition
(Why We See Beauty)
Videos

A series of videos on how evolution has affected human thinking

• One: Introduction - these videos are about Panic and Blunder Thinking, ala Cyreenik Says. This is first of the series.
• Two: Human Thinking Stack - describing the human thinking stack.
• Three: Instinctive and Analytic Thinking - two basic styles of human thinking.
• Four: Sports and Panic Thinking- thinking fast using morality layer or judgment layer.
• Five: Long term Panic Thinking - when panic thinking goes on for a long time.
• Six: Community Panic Thinking - communities can panic think as well.
• Seven: The Benefit of Language Drift- language changes with time and this has a big benefit.
• Eight: Good Times and Bad Times Genes - the root of some of our civilized health problems.

Evolution and Thought Videos

Another series on how evolution has affected human thinking

• One: Introduction - these videos are to help you better understand human thinking
• Two: Definitions - the terms I will be using
• Three: Hot Human Inventions - what "technology" makes humans distinctive
• Four: Changing Human Thinking - How does Mother Nature do it?
• Five: Neolithic Village - Where mankind learned to think
• Six: Instinctive and Adaptive Thinking - "In your heart, you know it's right."
• Seven: Neolithic Thinking Today - think of Bernie Madoff and cults
• Eight: Bride, Matrons and Beauty - There is a good reason for seeing beauty
• Nine: Arranged Marriage - Looking "Hot" to your prospective mate's parents
• Ten: The First Revolution: Agriculture - The new technology that is pushing the gene pool hard

Book Promotions

Videos pitching my various books

• Visions of 2050 -- speculations on what our real-life future will be like
• The Honeycomb Comet - A Technofiction novel about mankind encountering a moon-size alien
• Rostov Rising - A Technofantasy novel about Baron Rostov
• Tips for Tailoring Spacetime Fabric Vol. 1 - Technofiction short stories that happen in space
• Tips for Tailoring Spacetime Fabric Vol. 2 - Technofiction short stories that happen on earth
• Science and Insight for Science Fiction Writers - Essays about the science behind Technofiction stories
• Evolution and Thought - Insights into why humans think the way they do
• Why We See Beauty - More insights into why humans think the way they do
• Surfing the High Tech Wave - A history of Novell from 1980 to 1990
• Quirky Romance - Tales of damsels in distress... with happy endings

SLCC and Toastmasters Presentations in 2016

A presentation in March for the SLCC Business forum and a spontaneous speech for Toastmasters in August

Roger on Radio

KTKK 14 Jan 12: "Sector Five" about "Evolution and Thought"

KTKK 5 Mar 11: "Sector Five" with Stephanie Osborne

Miscellaneous Videos

Documenary and comedy-action

• I'm in Tender -- a 5 min. musical made for the 48 Hour Film Festival (Jun 16)
• Visions of 2050 -- I'm the star of this 3 min. video about my book (Dec 15)
• Utopia Lost -- cowriter on this 48 hour film project (Jun 13)
• Walk in the Park -- "I so don't have time for... zombies!" edited for 2012 DME class at SLCC (Aug 12)
• The Director -- I'm a character in this SLCC student film by Curtis Whitear (May 10)
• SLCC Mystery Science Theater (2009) Watch me as late night TV host presenting a series of fanciful science fiction films. (Apr 09)
• Big Cottonwood Canyon (fall 2008) Take a tour of Big Cottonwood Canyon, near Salt Lake City, Utah as the trees change color. (Nov 08)
• Twist of the Tool (MIT 1975) Kirk and Spock land at MIT and have an adventure there. (Oct 08) (30 min TV show version)

Science Speculation

Science, Economy, other topics I find interesting to talk about.

• The Human Thinking Stack A simple model of how humans think. This is the basis for Roger's concept of Panic Thinking and Blunders. (Nov 08)
• Save Mankind with Neolithic Park Humans are a boom species. How can we protect ourselves from becoming a bust species? Neolithic Park is an insurance policy. (Nov 08)
• What will it take to do Space Commerce in our real world? Popular space science fiction stories of today show humans with FTL "warp" drives. We real-world humans won't have that. What will our space commerce be like? (Nov 08)
• Boom species and Eco Flip Flop secies Two mathematical models from electronics can help explain how species grow and fade. One of these applies to humans! (Nov 08)
• Tattos and T-Shirts How a new technology displaces an old technology (Nov 08)
• Why do Stars Shine so Long? "It's all about phase changes, son."(Nov 08)
• Why is Venus so Hot? The surface is really hot, but not the atmosphere. See what's the difference. (Nov 08)
• The Ooze Zone of the Gas Giant Planets Science fiction stuff: if we go to mine a gas giant planet, where will we find veins of interesting minerals? (Nov 08)