Our adventure begins. This will be Meghan and I's 5th full day in Thailand. After 27 hours of travel, and little sleep, up at sunrise (5:30am) and to bed at 10pm is finally feeling normal - in this part of the world, sunrise and sunset are like…
What does $5 usually get you these days? Typically, our beloved Wilfred gets us almost two americano's, a taco, two bus rides, etc. Basically, $5 doesn't go super far these days. What if I told you there is a website dedicated to providing over 3 million…
This topic is big - too big for this little blog. Thorium is much more than a neat metallic element. Without hyperbole, thorium could easily be the solution to our global power requirements. Do I focus on it's abundancy in nature? It's inability to be weaponized?…
Be it resolved that... The words above might have a familiar ring to some of you. The phrase might even be dredging-up old memories of moderators, time-keepers, and fierce verbal sparring during the formative years of high-school. Or, the phrase above might not contain any significant meaning for you; it…
People that know me personally, know I'm just a tad opinionated - suddenly this blog's name makes a bit more sense. And of all the topics I rant about, none deserve it more than the spectrum of shitty reasoning, and muddy thinking, called pseudo-science. Some of…
Alright. Let's talk about something the world witnessed, considered, and deemed completely appropriate: Nelson Mandela's state funeral. I'm not going to comment on the actual ceremony, as I'm confident it was full of meaning, properly sombre, and celebrated Mr. Mandela's…
Bah, 1.5 months since the last update... terrible. So, I have Part II of my series on media consumption almost ready to go, and I had to transition the blog from DigitalOcean [http://www.digitalocean.com] to a hosted solution offered by Ghost.org [http://www.ghost.org] -…
How do you consume media? Do you have cable, netflix, or both? When shopping for an internet provider, is speed or cost more important? Do you use bit torrent? Songza? Spotify? Do you still (gasp) buy CD's? How we consume media is rapidly changing, and computer technology is…