As many people may know, I'm something of a tennis fan, and follow professional tennis fairly closely. Since I've been following pro tennis for the past decade or so, I've developed a decent repertoire of tennis trivia, which has been useful only for impressing my friend while we were watching the U.S. Open, and talking…
In case you are unfamiliar, the hot new trend amongst forward-thinking millennials is the notion of the "sharing economy", which is a loose term for a sort of Utopian society in which people do not own property, but instead basically "rent" everything. The concept of not owning property will probably seem absurd to older generations,…
It's a topic that has been played with by science fiction authors for quite some time now, and ever since the advent of artificial intelligence that came along with the first computers, the possibility that humans could one day be replaced by metal and silicon counterparts is becoming increasingly real. Now, could humans ever be…
I'm back! It's been awhile since a Deep Thoughts episode, but I made a push to get this posted just in time for America's birthday. I have some strong feelings regarding hot dogs and what condiments you can put on them. Also, Chicago is an overrated city that's too cold for humans.
If you dabble in photography, have you ever thought any of these things to yourself: "My aperture is wide open, but I still can't get an artsy blurry background, what gives?" "I'm shooting a landscape in low light and don't want to bump up my ISO, how much can I widen my aperture but still…
It was 4:45 a.m. on a warm, dry morning in the Southern Arizona desert. The fact that I had only gotten 4 hours of sleep had not yet caught up with me, because my mind was racing with what I would be doing for the next 24 hours. As of that moment, the plan I…
The terms "negative feedback" and "positive feedback" are used frequently in colloquial language, and like many other things in colloquial language, they are often used incorrectly. Put simply, a system that utilizes a feedback loop has the output of the system is tied to the input in some way. Whether you know it or not,…
On the whole, I'd say I'm a pretty normal person, but I have some oddities just like everyone else. A lot of times people tend to fixate on things that other (perhaps more successful) people do differently, but today I'd like to share some normal things that a lot of people do that I just simply…
I've mentioned before that my day job is that of an electrical engineer, a profession that relies heavily on the modes of thinking developed in math and science classes rather than language arts classes, so it should come as no surprise that as my schooling progressed, I grew to favor my math and science classes.…
I don't often talk about current events in detail, but this one was just too juicy to pass up. This past Sunday, a doctor was forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight for...doing nothing wrong. It sparked a multitude of outbursts on the internet (and some pretty funny memes), and has caused United to issue…