Category: Personal

  • We Will Miss You, Nick

    Nick Givotovsky was one of the smarter people I ever met. To this day, I only ever understood half of what he said. For years, I was debating with myself whether the other half was just nonsense or whether I simply didn’t manage to understand it. Well, when I finally realized that the first half,…

  • Off-Subject: Head, Neck and Back Pain

    If you suffer from any of the above, or any pain at all, and haven’t come across the writings of Dr. Jolie Bookspan, I recommend highly you take a look. She just put something I wanted to get off my chest on her blog at Healthline. For somebody with an engineering background like me, I…

  • What a Powerful Computer I have

    This is an actual screen shot from my MacBook Pro’s Activity Monitor today.

  • No Bloodshed

    "For we may distinguish two main types of government. The first type consists of governments of which we can get rid without bloodshed—for example, by way of general elections; that is to say, the social institutions provide means by which the rulers may be dismissed by the ruled, and the social traditions ensure that these…

  • Doing a Google Image Search on Myself — Oh No

    This is just too funny. It’s mostly James McGovern‘s fault I think … look at the images from duckdown.blogspot.com below.) In-lined for your amusement: One could think I have rather refined political opinions, but I usually don’t blog about those…