25 Up
I just finished watching the documentary 49 Up. There’s something quite moving in watching people mature from 7 to 49 in a matter of minutes and to see the change in their ideals, dreams, and their lives. It was fascinating...
Category: Random Thoughts
Palm Readings Vindicated (Sorta, Kinda)!
Came across an interesting article on Yahoo today on how finger lengths/ratio can be used to predict SAT performance. Specifically: Kids with longer ring fingers compared to index fingers are likely to have higher math scores than literacy or verbal...
Cool Stuff
Just some random stuff for today: I came across an interview on CNN.com with Scott Adams that is a good read. Especially insightful is: I start at 5 usually, 5 in the morning. I just walk across the street in...
How Important Is A Candidate’s Belief In Evolution?
It has been raised in various discussions on the topic of the 2008 presidential elections: just how important is a candidate’s belief in the theory of evolution? Should the people even care? I say yes. It shows that one has...
Mortgages And Leadership
I saw Thank You for Smoking over the weekend, a great movie, and I wasn’t planning on writing anything specific about it, but an article that I read this morning (and I guess thinking about the current circumstances of my...
Diplomacy? What’s That?
Seems like someone knows the answer. Talking good. Shooting bad. Why can’t we all just be adults and stop this posturing? Whatever happened to dialogue (at least give it a try)? In the end, we’re all human beings sharing the...
Caloric Bombardment
Yummy. I think I need to drive into New Brunswick. Right now. Damn you, MSNBC!
Another Reason to Switch to Sprint?
Yet another reason? You can give the “one-fingered salute to Verizon totally painless to you “. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect…
Thoughts on Sprint PCS
This post is completely off topic, but I feel like I have to get it out there for people who are just sick of looking at $$$$ cell phone bills. If you think about it, a family of four will...
The Allure of the WWW
Not everyone can appreciate the simple elegance of the ethereal structure that we know as the Internet. It is not the average person that will sit and contemplate the transmission of data from one node to another, thousands of miles away...