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The Pale Blue Dot
Having just finished watching Cosmos, I’m left awestruck and humbled. Our place in the cosmos is both insignificant and yet uniquely significant. In 1990, Mr. Carl Sagan offered some perspective to all of Humanity with a single picture from 4 billion kilometers away from home: The Pale Blue Dot
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USGA 2016 Distance Report
Yesterday, the USGA and R&A released their 2016 Review of Driving Distance. It goes to great lengths (pun, totally intended) to illustrate that it has successfully wrangled the scourge of ever increasing distances. Notably, I snicker at how the timeline from 2004 to 2016 is labeled “Stability through Regulation”. What does that mean for you, the consumer? […]
The Next Evolution In Game Streaming
Once a week I find myself on the couch watching Twitch. Be it CS:GO, WoW, Overwtach, or Bob Ross, it’s a good 30 minutes of unwinding time. While watching competitive CS:GO matches, casters do a great job of calling the action and making it feel a little more sporty. When watching something like WoW or Overwtach, […]
Intelligent Debate
Having recently watched a debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham I was left inspired. An intelligent, and civil, exchange of ideas between two passionate participants. The antithesis of what we witnessed during the 2016 Presidential Elections. Regardless of where you stand on the origin of our world, it’s worth listening to these gentlemen present their […]
Useless Golf Fact
Human Ingenuity
A 1TB hard drive. A terabyte of data. That’s 8,000,000,000,000 bits. Engineers have figured out how to spin platters at 10,000 RPM’s, move a reading head with nanometer precision, and read/write those bits with unthinkable speeds. The technology in a hard drive is absolutely genius and amazing when you think about the precision involved. The best […]
Love Is Complicated
I’ll always be a sucker for the Leia and Han storyline. An indescribable attraction between two people from completely different walks of life.
Your Happy Place
Delusional or not, there’s truth in the power of positive thinking.