A blog from a science nut, computer geek, sometimes philosopher, and a human. Based out of Denver, with a love of Antarctica, I seem to wander the world so who knows where I'll be in 6 months.
So the FCC want’s to change the intercarrier compensation levels without public comment on Election Day (Nov 4). It looks like they are trying to slide a regulation change in while the hub-bub is about the presidential race. The proposed change would, so far as I understand it, burden the little guys so much many … Read more
I don’t mean to be the typical indignant blogger, but I thought I’d express my frustration with our government oversight given that according to this article with the new york times, we just gave these banks a 700 billion dollar blank check. This blank check business enrages me, as there are only so many straws … Read more
I added a feature to my blog, for the future and for accessiblity. This RSS Feed is an audio podcast of my blog, converted via text-to-speech software. If you have an iPod or similar device that you want and would rather listen to my post rather then read them, well now you have the option. … Read more
For those of you who didn’t know, I’m back in school. I’m taking one class at a time via Colorado State University’s Global Campus, aka online. I haven’t done school work in 3 years or more, and I still hate ignorance, stupidity, and dumb learning as much as ever, but I’m not getting any younger … Read more
I just read both the NY Times and Washington Post reporting on the weekend’s big Wall Street story, and–espeically after reading this story in the Times about The Heart of the Problem— I find myself remembering This American Life episode on the “Giant Pool of Money” which is floating around the internet and is by … Read more
We just lost another of the 1019’ers (or wait…is that Keefer’s), but perhaps soon we’ll have another. We’ll always have the memories. (Ben is getting union’ed in UK and left us saturday, he’s the one in the back middle of the picture.) Originally uploaded by lmoore1118
I recently finished Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong written by James Loewen, and while I admitted to reading several other history books as well, I think I’m rather more stunned by a single idea that Loewen’s writing so clearly and with such distinct reasoning catalyzed in my mind … Read more
Cyprus was a relaxing experience and one to which I realize that I am privileged enough to be able to put into my agenda. In this day and age of workaholics and a life that never stops, it’s more necessary then ever to regain perspective or just disconnect from all the responsibility that life teaches … Read more
I feel like I just dropped off the radar slowly and unintentionally, then all of a sudden I landed at Dulles and had to remember how to get home. A strange feeling really, but part of the reason I highly recommend change your perspective so entirely for long periods of time. You come back with … Read more
The last major distraction of the smartphone was eliminated nearly as soon as we got to the beach as we went to the number 2 party place in Europe, Ayia Napa, just 15 mins away from the house we are borrowing for the week here in Protaras. Aiya Napa is like Key West, the French … Read more