If you're like me, I'm sure you've heard people talk about how much faster time seems to be as you get older. When you're a small child, a year seems like an incredibly long time. 5 years seems like almost an eternity. By the time you hit 30, a year seems like nothing, and 5 years seems like a relatively short period of time. I assume this ( Read more... )

I don't know if anyone reads this blog anymore. I certainly don't expect anyone to read this post. But I'm going to write it anyway, because it's a serious personal pet peeve of mine ( Read more... )

The 1980's - The Professional's Internet: The proto-Internet exists almost entirely for the purposes of researchers, academics, engineers and the like. This is the most serious the Internet will ever be ( Read more... )

According to the latest polls, over half of all Republicans would prefer a candidate with zero experience in government, and almost a third of Democrats would prefer a candidate who literally considers himself a socialist.
What in the world has happened to our country?
USA Today 2016 poll tracker

So I've really been enjoying the new New Order album lately ("Music Complete"). For those who haven't heard it yet, it's one of the best things they've done in ages. Ironically, it's also the first album they've done with out their legendary bass player, Peter Hook, who left the band a number of years ago. For those unfamiliar with the band, ( Read more... )

Yesterday was "Back to the Future Day". We had finally arrived at the point in time when Mary and Doc Brown had traveled to the "future" in Back to the Future II. Like a lot of people, I re-watched the movie, as well as many of the fun videos people have been creating to celebrate the moment. Something I noticed that's kind of interesting in the ( Read more... )

I am such a weirdo when it comes to what I do in the overall computer science and software engineering world. I'm not an academic computer scientist, but I'm not a true software engineer either. As somebody who's personality is probably closest to the "ENFP/INFP/INTP" types -- I love discovering patterns and logically analyzing things, but I have ( Read more... )

True Story:For a while when I was a kid (around 3rd or 4th grade), I decided it might be cool to be a mathematician when I grew up. I remember wondering how feasible it would be to actually make money doing this, and I remember deciding that what a mathematician probably did was have their name in the phone book under "M" for mathematicians, and ( Read more... )

Saw this on a forum, and thought it was about the best explanation of Portland you could do in three sentences:

* It's solid Portlandia east of the river out to about 82nd.
* West of the river is solid yuppie, something that gets rarely mentioned about Portland.
* East of 82nd it's solid Wal-Martian and Real America.Only thing I would correct ( Read more... )

Some of you may have seen my link on Facebook about the problems associated with holding a "belief in a just world". Psychological experiments have been performed that show a large percentage of people will tend to blame people being in bad situations, and praise people for being in good ones, even if those situations have nothing at all to do ( Read more... )