I found this today… kinda gives me goosebumps seeing what this guy has done and the real impact he has had of many people’s lives. He’s one of my new heroes. I could tell you what he does, but I’ll let him and his project speak for themselves. Khan Academy. (On a side note, Vimeo [...]
May 172010
May 122010
Yesterday afternoon about 4:45pm I was locked in a brain loop and couldn’t figure a way out. I was thinking too much about what I had to do, what was the best use of my time, how I was going to take care of important needs – basically the kind of crap that normally hits [...]
Apr 272010
I calls these insidious ways to waste time because you can convince yourself that you are actually doing something productive. You’re not, though. Really, you could be watching this on YouTube and be accomplishing just as much. 1. Reading those posts from “important” blogs in your RSS feed. I understand. I do it all the [...]
Apr 042010
In retrospect, I’m actually pretty surprised I feel as good today as I do. Yesterday I swam 1.2 km in chilly Berkeley waters at 7:30 in the morning. As I emerged and began running barefoot towards my bicycle, I tried to figure out what had happened to my hands and feet. Because I was running [...]
Mar 062010
Sometimes I run across videos that I have to embed here because I find them so profound or so important. This is one of them. Check it out.
Mar 032010
I’m finally putting some effort back into updating MotorcycleNewsGuy (my motorcycle news site) because, despite what seems to be a difficult economy for motorcycles, there really is a lot of innovation going on out there. I especially love what we’re seeing in alternative-fuel motorcycles, which don’t get nearly as much love here in the US [...]
Scientists are making progress in developing biofuels with a range of methods and an assortment of feedstocks. (From bioenergy.checkbiotech.org) Among the promising clean energy alternatives is an algae photo-bioreactor that grows algae in municipal wastewater to produce biofuel. Developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the bioreactor consists of large plastic bags made [...]
Feb 042010
No, no, get your filthy mind out of the gutter. I’m not talking about that boy-girl stuff. I’m talking about what happens when you see an opportunity for multiple things you’re passionate about to come together. When you have that “holy crap!” moment and realize that it not just a possibility, but there exists a [...]
Dec 052009
Movember. Wow, who would have thought growing a mustache would be so frickin hard? About halfway through I was seriously wishing that I was training for a marathon. I mean, I got a lot of grief from women. Maybe they would be been nicer if I was raising money for breast cancer research instead of [...]
As we as a society move further and further away from the idea of Thanksgiving – I mean, people now call it Turkey Day – I figured I’d put some thoughts in about thankfulness and why it’s important. I think that generally we don’t allow ourselves to take the time to think about what’s important [...]
