I grew up in the dial-up generation. I remember waiting for text to load. I like to think I grew up with the internet. I remember there not being a google to search with. The internet gets a lot of crap about taking up a lot of time. I say good. The outside world is [...]
I hate scooter kids. They fill the air with the haunting clack not to unlike small trains crossing discontinuities. They do have the advantage of moving slightly faster than walking speed. Just get a bicycle already. I hate the sound they make. It reminds me of the inefficiency they travel with and the difficulty of dealing [...]
To all the haters who gave me shit for years. To all of those that try to deny me credit when credit is due. Today is my day. This morning I passed (by that much) my road test and have earned a class D driver’s license in the State of Minnesota. My proctor was not [...]
Palin in gone, but will likely be back. I have a few questions for her if she wants my vote: Did dinosaurs and people walked around at the same time? Is Obama a citizen? If not, what should we do about the coup? Will you stop making stuff up for the sake of our troops?
AT&T sucks: they are blocking the website 4chan.org which hosts picture-based message boards, which is where lolcats started damn it! The series of tubes that is the internet is under siege like in that movie. What was it? Undersiege 3? Amazon sucks: The portable book made by amazon called the Kindle banned the book 1984 [...]
It is stupid to send a person to a planet. I still want to do it because it is important for the long-term survival of the species. I want us to actually go places because that is what Christopher Columbus was doing. Science-wise we should be sending bigger and better probes up. We can make [...]
I am watching a NASA old timer talk about the Apollo program. The 27th of January 1967 is when three astronauts died on the launch pad in a fire in the rich oxygen atmosphere. The door wouldn’t open. It did start the a major redesign. Without this process we would not have landed on the [...]
KAUST: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 11/09/07 I applied for the scholarship. 01/11/08 I had an interview in Washington, D.C. 02/24/08 I signed up after seeing the Colbert portrait 08/22/08 I went to DC for creativity training 01/04/09 I went to KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and the KAUST kampus 07/12/09 I went [...]
We need to go to Mars. Going to the Moon was awesome. Jump ahead 40 years and we just repaired the toilet on the ISS (International Space Station). I know that more data can be gathered by sending probes. But that is not what this is about. Or maybe it really is. We have lost [...]
Here are some interesting facts that I have been told by King Abdullah University of Science and Techn0logy (KAUST) officials. I ship out august 16 – 20th-ish. I don’t yet have my visa, plane tickets, or know how to get stuff over there. I realized at my recent Mexico City pre-departure event that I had [...]
I had never been in Texas before. The best thing about the Houston airport is that is has the lowest relative concentration of Texans in Texas. It was 97 and humid. The waterfountains jetted out warm water. I spent more than six hours in that place. I was constantly vigilant that if I j-walked I [...]
Houston Airport: The green revolution is a joke. People die in revolutions. The Bastille gets stormed. Tea gets dumped. Now a greedy few make their way by killing the rest through micro-payments of our souls. Chemical companies provide us each with trace amounts of carcinogens that build up to drag the health of the society [...]
Houston Airport: One simple thing. Whatever was determined to have been done to bring our economy down should result in life-long prison sentences. The death penalty to me is not outrageous compared the serial killers. Both cause large scale damage. It may seem outlandish, but Madoff got 150 years in prison. So ask yourself about [...]
Houston Airport: Where are my damn flying cars, Obama? Where is this change I payed for, voted for, and hoped for so much? What is different? 100 days came and went. I agree with Carl Rove that really it is until congress breaks for the first summer that is the defining period so often called [...]
Houston Airport: I love Google. They have screwed me over before, but that was more a matter of me wanting something cheaper than it should have been. Long story, water under the bridge. You have to trust somebody on the internet, so you may as well trust Google. Would you trust facebook? Myspace (Rupert Murdoch)? [...]