January 2012
2 posts
My theory is that clipping gadgets on your belt is a remnant of the 90s or 80s (pagers, Walkmans, etc.), and RIM’s sales will continue to shrink until they stop making products designed in such a way that encourages them to be clipped on a belt.
I think that one of the purposes of college is to impart a certain amount of humility; understanding that you do not know everything but that you can discover anything that is knowable.
October 2011
1 post
Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
September 2011
1 post
4 tags
July 2011
4 posts
Another online, JavaScript game I made: Kaboom! →
June 2011
1 post
5 tags
My Online Space Invaders Game →
Here is a link to a page with a link to my online version of the classic Space Invaders game. If you care to know, it was written with HTML5 and copious quantities of JavaScript.
It’s free, it’s classic, it’s online. What’s not to like?
April 2010
1 post
3 tags
February 2010
2 posts
4 tags
What is Beer - Part One
In hopes of derailing the prohibition movement many breweries banded together and mounted advertising campaigns to educate the public on the virtues of beer. The Summit County Brewers Association was formed by the major Akron brewers, and in early 1917 they ran some education articles in the Akron Beacon Journal. The following was posted on February 17th, 1917.
What is Beer?
The question...
2 tags
January 2010
4 posts
3 tags
1 tag
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
3 tags
“In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt, excerpted from the State of the Union Address to the Congress, January 6, 1941
3 tags
December 2009
10 posts
3 tags
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of...”
– Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923
2 tags
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as...”
– Albert Einstein
1 tag
Bankers Take it All
Me: "What did you do today?"
4 year old: "We played bankers."
Me: "Do you mean banks and robbers?"
4 year old: "No, we played bankers"
Me: "How do you play that?"
4 year old: "You just take all the stuff, and money"
2 tags
December 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor Attacked →
In an attempt to neutralize US forces in the Pacific, the Japanese executed a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor killing over 2,000 and brining the US into World War II.
1 tag
“If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than...”
– Barry Jones
2 tags
December 5, 1933: US Prohibition repealed →
On this day in 1933 the twenty-first amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, repealing the eighteenth amendment which prohibited “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes.”
1 tag
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good,...”
– Howard Aiken
3 tags
November 2009
12 posts
2 tags
“A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a...”
– Anonymous
1 tag
2 tags
“I do not feel obliged to beleive that the same God that has endowed us with...”
– Galileo Galilei
1 tag
“Sapere Aude! [dare to know] “Have courage to use your own...”
– Immanuel Kant, 1784
3 tags
4 tags
1 tag
“Some people classify ideas as impossible that should be more appropriately...”
– Christopher Stoll, 2005
2 tags
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Ernest Hemingway
3 tags
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to...”
– Thomas Jefferson
6 tags
“It is easy to sneer at our ancestors…but it is much more profitable to try to...”
– Thomas Henry Huxley
October 2009
8 posts
1 tag
Tumblr Post Dates
Earlier today I wrote a couple posts that I wanted to have published on a future date. The procedure was easy. I just wrote the post, selected “publish on…” and then set the publish time to the date I desired. But, I saw a typo in the post, and when I came back to edit it I noticed that the field “Date this post” showed the time when the post was written. I tried to...
3 tags
Napoleon was the "Son of the Revolution" →
If the life and career of Napoleon Bonaparte is examined in a vacuum, then it would certainly appear that he was a demagogue and dictator who simply imposed his will upon subjected peoples. But, it would be naïve to judge this great leader without considering the world around him…
3 tags
2 tags
History of U.S. Health System →
NPR: Accidents Of History Created U.S. Health System
2 tags
Bureau of Communication →
To promote better understanding between the peoples of the world, the Bureau of Communication is pleased to present a selection of fill-in-the-blank stationery for everyday correspondence.
3 tags
“Society cannot exist without some being richer than others, and this inequality...”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm starting to get it
Tumblr is like a blog, but it is easier to share different types of content (like Facebook), and you can tag posts or follow other blogs (like Twitter). Posts can be public or private. Interesting.
First Post
I already have a blog, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn account, why not add another one. I have heard other people say that they like tumblr, so I thought that I would try it out as well. Also, they have an iPhone app.