Here’s why I love Penn & Teller: they are afraid of nothing.  They used to have a show on Showtime called “Bullshit!”.  They debunked all kinds of ideas and theories over 8 seasons with crude language, a little bias, a lot of facts, and tons of hilarity.  Here’s a few of the ideas they took [...]

Many of you may not know when Weaknomics started.  It was back in the winter of 2008 and I was in the first job that really launched my career.  I bought a brand new car and paid off the loan in less than a year.  It was a bit of a splurge but I was [...]

NASA is now but a shell of its former self. Relegated mostly to launching satellites and resuming the search for bacteria on foreign worlds. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but NASA won’t get the kind of pop culture attention it once did. Hopefully the private sector and step up, but the days of [...]

The new iPhone is out and many people have rushed out to get themselves one.  Mostly really just to play with Siri, Apple’s new voice-guided assistant that can help you do everything from setting an alarm to the answer of a math problem to composing an email with a simple button press and your words.  [...]

Living a number of feet off the ground I have a few of traffic flows around a few blocks in my area.  A large number of commuters drive by so I get to see traffic flows like a bird might from above.  Of course we all have the benefit of sitting in traffic.  But for [...]

I heard from someone this week that Jobs was first and foremost a philosopher. That person has probably watched this.

My dog has had a pretty big impact on my life.  We’re best buddies, but then again he’s best buddies with everyone.  Sometimes he listens to me sometimes he doesn’t.  He can be a pain, and make a mess but in the end he’s worth it. I hear all the time from parents about kids.  [...]

Only a toddler or teenager would think I’m old, but I am old enough to remember when science magazines were promising flying cars in less than a decade. This is a promise that’s been around since before most of our parents were toddlers too. In the 1920s I would have surely thought that we would [...]