“I Can Break Rules, Too"
It’s just the strangest thing. Just now, I was replying to an e-mail that had been sent to me, and I got an error message saying that the e-mail was not sent. I scanned the error message (an old …
Stop the Nazi Comparisons
Mike Godwin, perhaps in despair of the reductive reasoning becoming so common in the Internet’s newsgroup arguments, coined “Godwin’s Law,” which reads: “As an online …
Creating an Out of Body Experience
The BBC reported that researchers have found a way to manufacture an out-of-body experience. Their experiment included one technique that employed a video camera that filmed the subject from behind. …
Why We Believe in God
The March 4 New York Times Magazine had an article about the debate among evolutionary biologists regarding why humans believe in God. Religion is so persistent in human history, scientists …
Visions of the Future!
I read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle that lists out predictions of the future that included out these scenarios: By 2020, the Internet could reach the far ends of the world, a population …
Our Tour of the MLB Parks
I’m at the Hampton Inn in downtown Denver, CO. Mike and I met here at the hotel on Friday afternoon as part of our ongoing stadium tour. We were about half-way into this tour before we realized …
Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Advice
Lifehacker shared a piece of advice on getting things done a little bit at a time. The advice comes from Jerry Seinfeld, right at the top of his career, to a new (then) comic and (now) software …
RIAA Killed the Internet Radio Star
I haven’t been following the whole battle over Internet radio because I don’t really listen to it that often and that I just figured that the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) …
My First Sermon: Job Moments
I just delivered my first sermon, titled “Job Moments.” Here is what I said: In my early 20s, I went on a road trip to Las Vegas with my friend, Mike. It’s kind of a rite of …
So Long Big Bang, Hello Big Bounce
A scientific paper was released yesterday in the online version of the journal Nature Physics that may provide answers not only to the origin of our Universe, but may describe some conditions of what …