Halloween. One of my favorite holidays despite the complete inability to prepare for any of them. You just can't go wrong with a holiday in late fall where you pass out candy, dress up, and mutilate pumpkins ( Read more... )

Psychology remains a passion of mine and I came across this story today. The upshot is that we've now developed techniques to observe living retinal tissue and the experiments run so far indicate that the brain is a larger player in the perception of color than the receptors in our eyes ( Read more... )

Sometimes my mind gets away from me ( Read more... )

I took yesterday off from work to recover from a roadtrip out towards Chicago for a fencing tournament (post pending).

With this recouperative free time, I decided to get a few things done that needed doing before we became embroiled within the clammy talons of the Winter season.

( To Errand, is Human )

With our hero now locked in mortal turmoil of the phone company now spurned at reduced services, what we he do next? Run away. Pretty obvious, really...

( A New Hope )

We last left our hero bright-eyed and bristling with excitement at the prospect of a new communications setup. Now, all he has to do is cut his phone service and get on with his life...

( Attack of the Phones )

Over the past couple of weeks, I have stirred up how I talk to people. Sometimes it is important to kick the anthill because you never know what sort of improvements may occur. This is something that can be very difficult for me at times because I can be rather inert when my needs are met.

( Rantum Teles )

I came across this story in the news today. While I am pretty gleeful about some of its implications, I remain skeptical about its medical applications ( Read more... )

One of the hazards of an open weekend with a list of things you would like to do is how easily you can get sidetracked in doing them. It must be in the blood, I guess.

( Penn State, Poker and Pizza )

People are stupid. The slightly less stupid people are stupid because they can't keep it to themselves that people are stupid. No, they’d rather complain to everyone within earshot of how stupid people are instead doing something very simple to protect themselves from these truly stupid people… making them, in my mind, doubly stupid ( Read more... )