Electricity is a subject I don’t understand well. I’ve taken several physics classes, and everytime someone mentions volts, wattage, current, power, my mind goes blank. I finally looked everything up and basically understand it; here is a very brief summary. Part of the reason why electricity seems so mystifying is because you can’t see it. [...]

The past few months I’ve become less interested in web design and more interested in web applications. Previously, I used to run sub domains for my various projects (such as poker.askthefool.com) but a few weeks ago I combined all of them and made them subsections of this personal site. Now again, I’m partially regressing and [...]

We are always late, we would have missed all 4 flights. We would first request then be distracted by a 4 hour inflight Bollywood film We would talk loudly and bring attention to ourselves. With food and drinks on the plane, we would forget why we’re there. We talk with our hands, therefore we would [...]

After hearing the State of the Union speech last night, I was curious to see historical trends in respect to style and difficulty. I created a database of all the historical State of the Union speeches since George Washington’s in 1790 till George Bush’s in 2006 and did some analysis. This stuff isn’t terribly useful, [...]