Why do we have such an obsession to capture and share our lives?

I walked alone by the river this evening. The stream reflected the molten dusk light and the leaves sparkled with recently-fallen raindrops. I stood on the footbridge and watched tiny fish swim in the running water.

Then I had a dangerous thought: This would make a good picture.

I did not to go to college after high school. This is what happened to my life during my first year outside of formal education.

Everyone loves to hate Facebook. I went a step further and made fun of Facebook on Facebook in a ten part ironic post series. Every day I picked an annoying type of Facebook post and wrote a post in that style. Click to read my ten types of annoying posts, but be warned of massive sarcasm.

The downside of books made of an antique technology called paper is that they can not be read in dim light. I was reminded of this fact one evening when the day’s light ran out as I read outside in a hammock. My brain, however, operates just fine without light, and I continued to swing back and forth as I pondered Deep Thoughts.

Robots are fun. Fun is hard. Therefore, robots are hard. And so is being on a FIRST Robotics Competition team. But being on a FIRST team is also about so much more than robots, and it's the non-obvious aspects of FIRST that keep us going back to the kool-aid.

Can geeks be cool?

Let’s take a step back and think about the inherent nature of words that describe people.

Beauty = the eye of the beholder

This cliched saying used to confuse me. Is beauty not black and white? Aren’t people either beautiful, average, or not? But then I realized that beauty is an opinion, and as such, it is subjective and can not accurately defined. This liberates the term and allows it to be used on the full spectrum of human existence.