I’m not the smartest person in the room. I’m probably not the cleverest either or best looking. It turns out that not being superior in all characteristics is okay. Malcolm Gladwell writes in his latest piece of thought piquing literature, Outliers, that one doesn’t need to be the most exquisite to excel - just merely [...]

One hundred and four point one. That’s what the electronic thermometer reads. The first thought through my head is, am I going to die? Unless heaven is an endless coffee shop hop with daily blog entries then I’m still here. I’m still alive which will be the theme of this article.
The human body is [...]

I am the terminator. I am the embodiment of cool and collected. I guess that’s what Daft Punk does to me. Want to see me turn into a blubbering mess? Put some Damien Rice on or Death Cab for Cutie. Need that extra zip in the morning play me Le Tigre. I am a creature [...]

Human’s have an uncanny ability. Drawing information in we interpret our observations. Not only do we observe but we compartmentalize. This is in a sense what makes us Human. Compartmentalization leads to comprehension and you have compounded logic. There is a chair in the room, there is a banana tied to a string on the [...]

I am officially and indefinitely boycotting the iPhone SDK. Our application the Cool O’Meter 3000 was denied live status in the Apple App store. In essence they said that we made an application that was too simple to warrant worthiness to the droves of iPhone and iPod users. The first thing that probably comes to [...]

Yesterday morning at one A.M. I along with much of the nerd world witnessed the firing of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. It made me think about a lot of things. Most importantly I realized how lucky I am to be alive in this time. If I can survive for another 50 years then [...]

There’s an internal debate making its rounds at NASA. Are we ready to send humans to Mars? It’s not just a question of technology but are we physically and mentally fit for the journey? Is it ethical to put a human in space knowing very well that they aren’t coming back?
I’d like to offer my [...]