I enjoy asking the deep questions. The thought-provoking rough nuggets that philosophers have labored to polish for centuries. In asking these questions, I don’t presume that I’ll ever arrive at an answer. My goal is to feel out the shape of the quandary, understand its mood, describe in part the shadow it casts, and through… Read more

I believe there are many paths to success in life. The internet is a wonderful place. Those who have found their own version (and some who haven’t) freely pass along their advice. Much of it is good! Why stumble through thorn bushes when one can have a willing guide show you his or her previously… Read more

When I was in elementary school, I continually heard from my mother that if she had to be a teacher, she would not want to be an English teacher or a Music teacher. In those subjects there was ambiguity, interpretation, subtlety between a pass and a fail. Between an A and a B. Opinion. If… Read more

This post is going to be an introspective dive into my year now past and the year yet to come. This is what we all do during the new year, correct?  Reflect on yesterday, take a moment to consider what lay behind us, and ponder what will happen next? Honestly, I’ve been doing that a… Read more

The current buzzword within technology circles is artificial intelligence, or better known as, AI. Boiling down a lot of very ingenious programing, all the AI of today is a smart search through a huge pile of data with a user-friendly output. That’s all. There’s no intelligence within the algorithms beyond the intelligence provided by humans… Read more

You can’t escape! Gravity is one of the most fascinating and mysterious forces in the universe. The universal law of gravity states that two objects are attracted to each other proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them squared. In other words, the bigger the objects, the more attraction. The closer… Read more