Category Archives: Random Musings
Wanna destroy the world?
Purdue University has teamed up with Imperial College London to create an impact simulator to calculate what would happen if an asteroid or a comet were to crash into the earth. Enter your various parameters and see what you would … Continue reading
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Consider your message
Supposedly Feminism is all about equality. At least that’s what they keep telling me, even though that’s not always what I see. So as an MBA, let me give you feminists the benefit of my Marketing 501 class: consider your … Continue reading
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Bad news
Years ago under a different employer they insisted that every new employee had to go to “Happy Camp”, a three or four day off-site motivational/life-skills workshop. As with most such things it makes perfect sense while you’re in the program, … Continue reading
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Challenges and opportunities
This video is exceptional on a number of levels. Peter Dahmen, the engineer interviewed, does amazing work. And yet had he been rich enough to not have to ride public transportation he might have missed entirely an opportunity to excel. … Continue reading
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Happiness is never “out there”
If there is one thing that social media is teaching me, it’s that happiness is never going to be found “out there.” Nothing anyone else can do will ever make you happy–at least not for long. Most all my friends … Continue reading
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Falling for science, or perhaps just falling
The science geek in me thinks this is totally awesome. My only regret is that they don’t really show the drop under vacuum conditions at normal speed. That would have been more believable to my eyes than the slo-mo. But … Continue reading
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Viral hate vs. viral support
Jason Money, in the last football game of his high school career, made a mistake that cost his team the game. That would be bad enough for anyone, let alone a teenager. But then video of the mistake goes viral, … Continue reading
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Dropping the ball
As it got closer to Election Day I realized I really had no idea who was running and what they stood for. I don’t like to vote blindly, so I went to the state elections website where they have voter … Continue reading
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Go vote!
Go vote! It’s important! If you don’t, the bad guys win (whomever your personal bad guys may be)! In the mean time, for those of us convinced that Daylight Saving is an evil plot, there is this: I especially like … Continue reading
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Elementary, my dear Sherlock
About a month ago I used a meme-pic of Benedict Cumberbatch as the launching-point do a discussion on rudeness in society. This weekend I saw some of Cumberbatch’s BBC series “Sherlock”, and now I know how he got to be … Continue reading
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