Random Thoughts

Somebody To Pray For

I am not a believer of any faith, and the most common prayer you can hear from my voice is "pass the salt". However, I claim I have the right to have my own opinion on what is worth praying for. Praying for oneself or one's beloved relatives ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 23 2010 - 1:22am

Some Thoughts on Health Care Economics

Recently I've seen the questions come up regarding why the market doesn't respond to health care or why supply and demand don't seem to work in health care as in other economic models. The answer is simple.  There is no free market nor is th ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Aug 26 2010 - 5:08pm

Geek Lunch With Garth Sundem

When the Batphone rang in my office late Wednesday, I knew it had to be important, like someone being wrong on the Internet, because, really, no one calls me.  It helps that I never call anyone back (1). It turned out to instead be everyone's favorite ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 3 2010 - 2:24pm

The Say Of The Week

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." Oscar Wilde ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 5 2010 - 12:50pm

Geek Lunch outtake

As mentioned, I had a chance to break some bread with uber-Geek book author Garth Sundem a few days back and posted a Bloggy pic.   But, as is common, we took more than one to try and get it right.  So below is the pic I posted from my article and then dow ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 5 2010 - 4:21pm

Monarch Butterflies On Purple Asters

Yesterday afternoon a flutter of Monarch Butterflies landed in the courtyard garden at the end of our block for a wondrous "asteral" visit. The winds were shifting and gusting and thunderheads were accumulating overhead, but these butterflies ap ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Sep 6 2010 - 6:06pm

Quality: Because it Matters (critical thinking skills make a difference)

” The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your decisions, and the quality of your decisions is determined by the quality of your thinking.” Schick and Vaughn, How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age That quote is ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Sep 7 2010 - 4:41pm

What's up with Maui and suicides?

I confess I have never been to Maui or any other part of Hawaii.   Part of that is my age- I am still young enough to do fun stuff and so I have had run-ins with Turkish police, the Bulgarian mafia and even set a record at the Escape&Evasion course for ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 9 2010 - 3:47pm

Crossover with game design

In science, we first verify our procedures and the process by which we got our results.  Then we validate it against reality.  For example, I wrote a code that simulated galaxies colliding.  The main verification was to ensure the subset of physics we were ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Sep 11 2010 - 1:49am

Cyberstalking of me by the Organisation Internationale des Intersexués OII

Cyberstalking as a way of trying to bully someone into giving them what they want on line.  A certain website was set up just to slander me by The  Organisation Intersex International  OII.    Now one Katrina C Rose a Phd candidate in history at U Iowa has ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 21 2010 - 9:22am