I’ve always felt a little vindicated by entropy, and have always enjoyed when it comes up in science classes. We are talking about it again today.
 So the second law of thermodynamics says that all irreversible processes result in an increase of entropy, constantly adding to the overall entropy of the universe. 
Have you heard that they […]

So I bought my first digital text book, which I thought was cool.  Last semester one of my textbooks had a PDF of the text on CD that I loved, it was easy to search for information and convenient to bring to class (since I bring my lappy anyway)
 I was excited about the ebook, but […]

You know how when you get a new cell phone, you seem to see the phone everywhere or when you buy some new shoes, you notice everyone who has the same shoes.  Recently I started driving an old Honda Civic and I noticed that they are everywhere.  Everywhere.
The other thing I noticed was that there are civics, […]

The only difference between running away from something, or running toward something…
… is if you look back.

(if you don’t know, Utah is voting on a bill that would provide “vouchers” — tax breaks to parents who move their children to private schools)
I have seen a bunch of commercials about this, pushing both sides, but you know how commercials are… Neither side gave any information.  I bounced around on the internet reading bits […]

I wish my computer wouldn’t tell me that I have 20 minutes of battery, then not give me 20 minutes of battery. 
 Now I’m pounding away on the desktop while my laptop makes an expensive arm rest.  ah well.
I just bought some parts to run a gigabit network in my house.  I’m really excited.  The problem […]

My wife is 9 months pregnant, and she had a rough weekend, her stomach has been hurting her, and she had odd irregular contractions.  So she got online to look up some information about false labor.  One of the sites had a caveat to the effect “True labor ends with childbirth.  Therefore once you have […]

I know that it’s old news now, but I keep thinking about the Virginia tech shooting.  Every time something like this happens there is a lot of clamor about what we should do, and one of the loudest cries is that we need more/better gun control laws.  I have always thought that is a fallacious […]

I don’t care what they tell you.  Life is not random. 
Life bunches up on you.   It will come at you in patches and bursts.  You’ll spring for pizza on a thursday night, then someone will bring pizza to work on Friday, and you’ll visit your parents on Saturday, who will offer you some pizza.
Next, a […]

Related to my insightful dating advice…I think Jonathan proves the phenomenon in his blog.  He is apparently invisible.  (If anyone thinks that he is a category one,  they’re wrong.  But he probably wouldn’t fit category two.)  Girls literally look right past him.  Even when he makes an effort. 
Then note the first comment.  If I had […]