I had an epiphany last night, and realized that there is a very elementary answer to the question of “What was before the universe?” It’s a pointless question. By definition, our “universe” contains everything; there is no matter-energy or space-time-entropy or thought-consciousness outside of the universe. In fact, there is no such thing as an [...]
I was browsing through the Art of Manliness feed which I had let build up in Google Reader, and came across this which I would like to share: To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out is to risk involvement, To expose feelings is to [...]
Today’s XKCD comic (in the alt-text) led me to discover the Diaspora project at joindiaspora.com. Four young college geeks (hey, be proud to be a geek): Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer, and Ilya Zhitomirskiy, are on a mission to create a “Personally Controlled, Do-It-All, Distributed [and encrypted] Open-Source Social Network”. An end-all be-all, if I may, to [...]
After taking advantage of 1and1‘s one-year free domain offer, and settling on Free Hostia‘s free hosting, and the open source WordPress blogging software, I now have a site up and running. If you, my friends, are wondering why I’ve decided to create my own website, then I must say that it is because I can. [...]