Home

Welcome - you probably want koplowiczandsons.com, my professional site.  Koplowicz.com is the personal family repository for all things Koplowicz.  I don't post much here any more, but check out my social links above (especially LinkedIn).

Blog

Realistic Space Battles

koppie

Here's a 7,000 word essay on what realistic space battles would look like.  I don't agree with every point; I do think stealth would be useful, and I think regular machine guns would be useful too.  In addition, the essay briefly considers the fact that any adequately large battleship, or even space freighter, could be a dangerous weapon against a land target like a city, but doesn't really deal with the strategic implications of that.

The Life of Hurricane Sandy - From Space

koppie

Maybe I should have a new category on my site for "This is Fucking Crazy."  Here's Sandy's life over a one week period, from ravaging Cuba to climbing up the entire Eastern Seaboard.

Watching it from space gives a kind of antisceptic feel to the entire thing.  You know terrible destruction is been wreaked below.  Kinda reminds me of the view from a battlecruiser:

Star Trek Haiku

koppie

From the "I can't believe I never posted this" department.  I was digging through some old files and found this gem from law school.  Warning: These will get a little raunchy.  I blame law school.

Daddy in the Kitchen

Medieval Fig Tarts

koppie

Spicey honey fig tarts.  Holy freaking cow.
This one came from The Inn at the Crossroads, an incredible recipe blog based on the food from the Game of Thrones series.  I didn't really notice when I read the books, but it turns out there are some amazing foods described between the pages, and they're all based on real medieval recipes.  Either GRRM did a hell of a lot of homework on medieval food, or he has an uncanny knack for guessing.

Cranberry Relish

koppie

Add this to the list of things that are better made by yourself, along with applesauce and peanut butter.  Our local organic box brought us a bag of fresh, ripe cranberries, oh-so-perfectly timed just before Thanksgiving.  And a week before that, a fresh pomegranate.  We'd already used half the pomegranate in fresh salads, but had just enough left for this recipe.