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There are a many things that I am grateful for: a loving family, a good job (even if it does stress me out a lot and keeps me insanely busy), good health, high speed internet connections, snow, sunshine, a warm bed, a hot shower, food on my plate, my friends (though I seem to have [...]

The definition of “patent”, courtesy of the US Patent and Trademark Office:
A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Generally, the term of a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent [...]

Critical Mass works hard. We know that from all the various nervous ticks we’ve developed over the years from working too hard.
So you can imagine that when we play, we make up for the difference.
There are two annual events in the Critical Mass calendar. The first is the Summer Event, which has been a staple [...]

Today, 14 February 2006, is being touted as the day people are to “break-up” with Google (also here). They’re to sever their relationship, their ties, their love for what is still the most dominant search engine on the internet. It might be losing its top place due to a drop in its relevance (word to [...]

I am a know-it-all. Both in the best and worst senses.
I became one as a kid. When all of my friends were reading Hardy Boys or Lord of the Rings, I was reading through Time Life books, learning how the universe worked — from the formation of suns right down to the reproductive systems in [...]

I hate Starbucks.
Not because the word “Starbucks” has come to mean anything so popular and prevalent as to find it on every street corner. Not because they’ve taken the idea of luxury coffee and turned it into a readily-accessible commodity. Not because they charge almost five dollars for a coffee.
I hate them because they stopped [...]

Wow. Long time no write, eh?
It’s amazing how one’s life can change so dramatically in such a short period of time. Things that had once been hugely important become minor, and things you never imagined having a major sway in life suddenly start dominating every action and thought.
I’m not going to recap the events of [...]