I wrote a guest entry on the Fun With Liquid Nitrogen blog about the role of critical thinking in one of my favorite activities, go check it out.

Where critical thinking, creative thinking and fun meet to have tea: The Roleplaying SystemAfter you're done with that read the rest of the blog. It's excellent, seriously. I read it everyday at lunch ( Read more... )

So I turn on the news this morning for the first time in months and I'm confronted with the story that campaign contribution limits for corporations have been overturned by the supreme court and that the language is so broad that it gives true free speech rights to corporations ( Read more... )

There will be a winter party. Last year, if you remember, we had bad movie night which was a great time. The exact date of the party is still a bit murky it will be dependent on when we get our boxer puppy but the puppy will be present for the festivities ( Read more... )

Life is going well. I'm still in love with the house. That being said I'm very particular about my the environment in which I live so there are still a ton of things I'm not happy about and want to fix. We're getting a dog sometime in December, a boxer which is exciting but I'm still pretty darn worried about messing the dog up even though I ( Read more... )

Crowdsourcing Congress: A hypothetical blueprint ( Read more... )

I'm doing something really cool ( Read more... )

In which I type a sentence that has been bouncing around in my head for quite some time and hope that it will bounce around in others so that we may have conversations about it:

In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson's 19 year rule, crowdsourcing a constitution.

So the guy that owns our house right now is in MEXICO ( Read more... )

Issues with the title. We are not closing today. We ARE moving this Saturday regardless, hopefully we'll be moving to the new house ( Read more... )

Had a mini-breakdown yesterday. The stress involved with buying a house is intense. I'm also highly stressed at work, I'm in one of the most stressful points I've experienced in this job so far ( Read more... )