M.I.T.'s my new Jerusalem. I would walk there and offer my services to Negroponte for free if I thought I could truly make a difference there. But I think they're on track already. There are other, more productive things I can do, I believe ( Read more... )

A revolution? A revolution on the cheap, I guess, but it's a time for celebration. I truly love M.I.T.: it really is, without the shadow of a doubt, the best school in the U.S. and one of the only two I'd care to attend (the other one being that school funded by Apple - I'd like to teach there). :P ( Read more... )

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there.The only difference is that there is no cat. "
- Albert Einstein, explaining radio

Ok. I've been dragging my ass when it comes to getting a TESL job in South Korea... I hadn't been home much since I left for Ottawa and it feels nice to stick around for some time. I hope I leave some positive behind when I actually get on a plane to somewhere far away for probably a whole year (and maybe a month more ( Read more... )

“I’ll bet your natural charm has made you a good sprinter.”

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Phillip K. Dick

My first computer had a 20-megs hard drive. The one I have now has 250 gigs internal and an external hard drive that adds another 250, so 500 gigs total, or 500,000 megs. In about 15 years, the hard drive on my computer went up by a factor of 25,000!!!!! Now THAT'S progress!!! We live in interesting times, my friends...

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
-G. K. Chesterton

"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer." - Oscar Wilde

"We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
-Pablo Picasso