Posts tagged: creativity

Shoot the Frickin’ Mosquitoes with Frickin’ Laser Beams

This is an inven­tion that would make Dr. Evil proud.  I’m pretty damn happy about it, too!  Are you tired of mos­qui­toes in the sum­mer?  Well, if you were in a sub­trop­i­cal or trop­i­cal area where mos­qui­toes carry deadly dis­eases, you’d be more than just annoyed by the lit­tle bug­gers.  You’d want them to burn, […]

Friday February 12th, 2010 in , , , , | Comments Off

Did You Know Addresses Don’t Work the Same Way Everywhere?

It’s really cool to find out that I’ve been using a basic assump­tion that I didn’t even know was there. There are some things that are so fun­da­men­tal to the way that peo­ple where we grow up think that we don’t even real­ize that cer­tain basic assump­tions have been made.  It is not until we see […]

Saturday January 30th, 2010 in , , , , , | Comments Off

How you did in school is not a measure of intelligence

Accord­ing to our edu­ca­tion sys­tem, I’m smarter than a lot of other peo­ple.  I know it isn’t true, but I’m not going to turn down awards, schol­ar­ships, and ego boosts by giv­ing an accep­tance speech by say­ing it’s all bunk.  But it is. Our edu­ca­tion sys­tem, as it is cur­rently con­structed, is a game.  If you […]

Saturday December 12th, 2009 in , , , , | Comments Off

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