There are explorers and there are innovators. There are people who investigate the world and there are those who push the limits and create. What I do is explore. I’m not pretending to do anything new. I’m not trying to create the next big thing. I simply want to search and examine and appreciate what […]
When I was a kid, Star Trek was my window to Space; my imagination was bounded only by the distance the warp drive could take me. Later, my love of space swelled along with the Space Shuttle Program in the Eighties and Nineties. My palate grew even more when I discovered the Apollo missions and […]
Preface Ontology is the study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality. Epistemology studies the nature of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief. This essay is an effort to describe my personal ideas on the nature of being as well as what I believe to be true. It is also an attempt […]
Ah, to be a kid again… It’s mid-July in the heart of summer vacation. The air is thick and heavy, heated to uncomfortable levels. The kids are left to fend for themselves and try to find modes of entertainment which they’d prefer doesn’t involve going outside in the heat. So they’re stuck inside with seemingly […]
-I remember standing up in front of my classroom twenty five years ago and giving a presentation about a book I had recently read. I was in sixth grade and the book was about a nuclear holocaust. That’s right, eleven year old me was infatuated with – what I now realize was – global events […]
After playing a lot of video games and watching a lot of TV shows and movies about robots and A.I., I was inspired to make my own robot. But I wanted to give it a little style, so I decided to use modern technology for the guts but use authentic vintage components for the outside […]
For the 2016 holidays, my family decided to put a spin on the classic white elephant gift exchange by adding a ‘bidding’ element where folks would bid a dollar amount on each gift in hopes of winning it. The gift itself would go to the highest bidder but all the proceeds would be combined at […]
During the summertime I took daily walks around a pond at work. Technically, it’s a glorified drainage ditch built because of the giant parking lot nearby – but hey, I’ll take what I can get! In my experience, whenever a body of water is created, Nature doesn’t care who or what put it there, she […]
My last post was May 9th, seven months ago. It wasn’t on purpose, but it seems I ended up taking a long break. I guess I needed it… Looking back over those seven months, I realize now that we’ve been very busy; we’ve been busy taking care of the kids, soccer, school, birthdays, family get-togethers, […]
Telescopes aren’t just for nighttime anymore! This is my first image of the Sun and I gotta say, I’m pretty happy with it! Not with the image itself necessarily, but more with how easy it was to capture. Plus, this means that now I’m able to do astronomy during the daytime! Having a career and kids […]