Thoughtful
Things that I find thoughtful or logical that I want to present for general review.
One of the joys of parenting is having the opportunity to mess with your children. I always wanted to be like Calvin’s dad (from Calvin & Hobbes) when my children were young, for example. It’s no wonder Calvin has such a unique perspective on reality when his dad explains that the sun is really only the size of a quarter and that we know how much weight bridges can take by driving progressively heavier trucks over them until they fall down. But that only lasts while they’re still gullible young. Entertaining Young Persons I’m discovering a...
This post is the result of a school assignment Teleri had. The original assignment was to write a "letter to the editor". She modified the assignment to be a blog post. The topic, position, and composition are her own. I really hate it when I hear someone argue that certain video games should be banned because they are EEEEVIL. Okay, they don’t use that word, but that’s what it comes down to. They might say “kids who play video games are more violent” or “video games make kids more likely to shoot someone.” Or...
I often wish that geeks had a better grasp of markets and applied logic. This thought returned recently when I read an article linked from someone I follow on twitter. David Pogue’s questions in his NY Times article are all interesting to be sure, but some of them aren’t really all that unanswerable. For fun, I’ll cherry-pick them for my own entertainment. Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels, but $14 a night at expensive ones? This one’s a softball. Free Wi-Fi will often be a deciding factor when choosing one cheap hotel over another whereas the deciding factor...
Profound thought of the day:
The teacher decides what is taught.
The student decides what is learned.
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In the words of Robert Heinlein, "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." I'm pretty sure this is true on a fundamental level. Unfortunately, too many people never bother trying to figure out what something will actually cost before supporting or endorsing it. An Example One such instance is a new movement here in Utah called Zero Fatalities. They're running radio ads here and my blood pressure rises every time one comes on. This is from their front page: Even though there are more people living in Utah and people are driving more, fewer people are...