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July 30, 2010
How do you unplay a Game?
I have been thinking a lot about this tech addiction topic over the last week. Some problems just keep beating you about the head and shoulders until you try to do something about them. And according to the data I'm...
July 29, 2010
The Project
In the Beginning was the Project And then came the Assumptions And the Assumptions were without form and void And the customer conversation was completely without substance and the darkness was upon the face of the workers and they spoke...
Talking Digital Drugs Part 1
I sat down with a bunch of my friends yesterday and had a detailed conversation about digital drugs. I was wondering -- am I the only person who views this as a problem? Instead of chatting, I decided to use...
July 21, 2010
Inventions, Induction, Implications, Insinuations
1903 -- Man first flies in heavier-than-air plane Approximately 22 years later, early 1920s -- propeller aircraft become practical. 1923 First nonstop transcontinental flight. 1927 First Solo nonstop Transatlantic flight Approximately 20 years later, mid 1940s -- The propeller gets...
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Looking for the Archons
With nothing better to do than exercise and think, I started asking myself the old editors and writer's question: "what could you take away from this show and it would still work?"
July 13, 2010
The Other End of the Telescope
Now that I've read the book, I know what the "American Bastille" was, why there were riots during the war, how the first Income Tax got passed, what the "American System" was, how the South viewed reconstruction -- all kinds of little things I must have missed in history class.
July 10, 2010
F# Versus Microsoft's Regex. A Lesson in Types
The more I play with F# the more fun it gets. Take for instance this problem I was having last week....
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July 4, 2010
The Biggest Obstacle
So now I'm in a spot where my existence itself conspires against my larger goals. Everything that I am -- the choices I have made, the habits I have formed, the promises I have made
July 2, 2010
If you could go back in Time, What Would you tell Yourself in your 20s?
Shiny things are nowhere as much fun after you get them as before, even if they have some value. So yes, that Kindle or iPad or whatever will have a real use, and you will be marginally happier with...
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July 1, 2010
A Little Perspective
Everything is awesome and everything sucks. Dude! Where is my jet-pack? Then I remembered those cool pictures I found last week on the internet and changed my mind.