Category Archives: Personal

I hate being wrong about things. I so hate being wrong about things that most of the time I can’t bring myself to care about controversial stuff because I fear being contradicted or disproved on some point by someone who … Continue reading →

As has been mentioned, I am skeptical guy. For example, I laughed very smugly at that South Park episode that lambasted John Edwards. Anyway, the proprietor of !?, another ardent skeptic searching for like-minded folks, recommended that I visit the … Continue reading →

You know all those tools in gymnasiums? Often you have to set various levels of resistance and tension in them to fit the strength of your muscles, then you engage in all these repetitive movements. The thing that always bothered … Continue reading →

So I came across this article in Wired that seemed unhappy with the security at Los Alamos National Laboratory–perhaps a legitimate concern–but it also seemed unhappy with how grubby the LANL buildings were, which isn’t such a big deal. Let … Continue reading →

I ain’t a libertarian

In honor of MLK day, a little Get Your War On.

Here’s an idea: what if we are thinking too much of ourselves? What if the history of each human personality, from initial state to final state could be represented as a huge binary number? It would be a pretty damn … Continue reading →

I guess it was only a matter of time before this happened but today I dropped my laptop and cracked the screen. The system appears to boot up fine but the screen is divided into a mess of white and … Continue reading →

Well there’s “Bob” and there’s Bob. Both are very cool in my opinion.

I live in a dense neighborhood and not a month goes by where I don’t see an old couch, an old mattress, an old futon or an old stuff chair sitting out in the street. This bugs me. Isn’t there … Continue reading →