“Dear Amazon,” Improve the Kindle ideas
Dear Amazon,
I absolutely LOVE my Kindle. Thank you for this amazing product!
I know you love delivering value to customers like me - and I know you're into making money. I won't begrudge you that. However, I believe you are missing several huge opportunities to make your customers extremely happy and make some money in the process. Here is one area that I believe you could improve upon:
This is where bad science starts
I have moved this post to my other blog, The Optimiskeptic. That is probably where I should have put it in the first place, but at the time, the blog needed a lot of updating (for starters it was originally created using Serendipity). Now, it is using WordPress, and a cool new comment system called Disqus. I am still "modernizing" the blog, and I plan to add new posts to it at least once or twice a week from now on. Sorry if this creates confusion.
I recently read this Gizmodo article that questioned whether or not the results of a 13-year-old kid, Aidan's, science experiment was properly debunked. Aidan's science experiment is noteworthy for three reasons: (1) He claimed to have increased the efficiency of solar cell power generation by simply arranging them in a Fibonacci (Golden Ration) pattern copied from the leafing pattern of plants found in nature, (2) his findings, published as an essay, received a "Young Naturalist Award" from the American Museum of Natural History (and a provisional patent, no less), and (3) this was reported on and praised as "genius" and a "breakthrough" by several noteworthy magazines such as Poplar Science, Slashdot, and The Atlantic Wire.
Its Supposed to Be Funny
Sitting, sitting, waiting, waiting
Always calling out
Never calling in.
My Sassy Blasphemy
Has Hollywood over reached…?
Hollywood has been remaking Hong Kong movies for years now… And why not? “The Departed,” a Hollywood remake of Hong Kong police drama “Infernal Affairs” netted $290 million worldwide and bagged 4 little golden statues. Sadly, it seems like horror flicks get the Hollywood remake treatment more often with terrible films such as “The Eye” being foolishly lifted from HK cinema. Apparently, they were trying to piggy-back on the success of Japanese horror remakes such as “The Ring” and “The Grudge” – but you have to start with a good movie…
A New Goal
I love sharing my goals and aspirations privately, but rarely in public. This one I think I can. I would like to bicycle across the US after I finish college. Of course, which "after college" could mean several things since I plan on going to grad school - twice - and I also want to do Teach For America in there somewhere... So, lets just say that sometime in there after one major milestone and before the next, I want to do the TransAmerican Trail which stretches from Oregon to Virginia.
My Tax Rebate
Like most people, I'm very excited to be receiving some of my tax money back. I just wish I could stay excited once I started using my brain. Allow me to explain:
G.R.rrrrrrrrr, baby…
Today, I had the pleasure to meet two of my greatest heroes: Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong, founders and writers of Giant Robot magazine. I wish I could explain why I love this magazine so much and the impact that Eric & Martin have had on me and the lens through which I view the world... but words fail me in this instance. Perhaps I'll retouch on this another time.
Be
People always told you
“Be yourself!”
“Just be yourself!”
“You gotta be yourself!”
“To thy own self,
Be true.”
So you tried it,
And you found
You found out
Things about yourself
From those people
Certain things
You never knew.
How are you sleeping?
How are you sleeping?
I'm not sleeping so well…
I lie in bed,
In the dark,
Exhausted and yet,
Wide awake.
Together Alone
He walked alone
On his path of life
Trudging along, refusing to abate
Not expecting
To meet a beautiful siren
Who forever would alter his fate