Archive for the 'General' category

New Plans

Seeing as it has been a whole three weeks since I have posted, I feel it I need to do something to be reinvigorated in the “blogging spirit”. My idea is to choose one topic a week, do research on it (post the research), and then post an “official” opinion at the end of the [...]

300

Call it a major hurdle but for the last week I haven’t been able to blog simply because I did not feel like writing this single entry. Why? Because this is my 300th entry in this very weblog. It’s been a long 299 entries but I’ve finally made it. It’s crazy to see how [...]

Google “Beer”

On reddit today is a link to the Google search of beer whose title is wondering why there are no ads that appear on it. Wondering why this was, I looked up Google Adwords’ Editorial Guidelines which state: As a business, Google must make decisions about where we draw the line in regards to [...]

Global Warming: Who really cares?

Cross posted to Newsvine. The other day, I entered a discussion with my math teacher (who happens to have a philosophy degree) on the subject of global warming. It is his position that global warming has been blown out of proportion and is not extremely different than the climate changes that have happened throughout [...]

Being A Good Writer…

“Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet.” Via boingboing.net.

Welcome Back

… ant that’s all I have to say about that. I hope you had a good month off, mine has been very busy. My birthday was a few days ago. Happy 17!

Eat less insects

An instructables how to gives some fun hints about how to avoid eating insects and insect byproducts. The article uses simple candies to illustrate how insects are commonly disguised in the ingredients listing. This probably won’t effect which foods I choose to eat but it’s nice to know. An added bonus would be to freak [...]