I haven't seen the movie Anger Management in its entirety. The combination of Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler just looks way too awkward and forced to me. Still, for some reason, I caught a clip of it on TV once where Adam Sandler's character, Dave, has his first session of anger management group therapy with Jack Nicholson, and something about ( Read more... )

There definitely seems to be a convergence of ideas happening in the social web space. The world went from blogging to MySpace profiles to Facebook wall posts and Twitter updates pretty quickly, until now it seems to be an equilibrium of features in most social websites. We can quibble on whether or not there should be a "dislike" button on ( Read more... )

I basically had this conversation in my head on my way home from work today.

Apologies in advance to the far-more-brilliant-than-me Ryan North and his fantastic Dinosaur Comics series. The webcomic art and concept are entirely his. I just borrowed it for my words:


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A few years ago, I read this webcomic reposted below:

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If I could describe my ideal life in terms of three activities, it would be these:

• Think


• Play


• Learn

These three words distill just about everything I want to get out of life. Anything else is just Life Support.

Let's break these down a little more. Otherwise, this wouldn't be an essay ;-)

I love to think; ponder; cogitate; contemplate; analyze; ( Read more... )

Believe it or not, Wikipedia has a List of superpowers. This alone should tell you that a large number of the anonymous editors on Wikipedia are geeks through and through ( Read more... )

Much reading after a certain age diverts the mind from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theaters is apt to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.
-Albert Einstein (M. K. Wisehart, A Close ( Read more... )

It only hit me just a couple weeks ago that, not only is the end of the year coming, so is the end of the decade! (modulo quibbling about how to count decades since there was no year zero). I started to hear a lot of "best of decade" lists, and retrospectives on "the last ten years". Most of them have been negative: starting off with the dot-com ( Read more... )

I already had a favorite quote about what Computer Science is not:
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
- usually attributed to Edsger Dijkstra, one of the world's most prominent Computer Scientists.

But then, what is Computer Science, in terms that a layperson could understand? This question was recently ( Read more... )

There was an article in the local free daily newspaper at the Metro the other day about couples marrying and getting a house in the same year (Link here, but I don't know how long the story will remain in that site's archives). "That's crazy!" I said to myself. "anailia and I just got married last year. We make good money, but we're only now just starting ( Read more... )