Happy birthday Oreo!   You turned the big 100 this year.   Don’t worry, I celebrated with you.  I polished off a whole bag to ring in the occasion.  Birthdays demand some level of indulgence, right?  And now, I’m just in the middle of turning the big 30. A lot of people have been lamenting my [...]

I was just in the middle of watching Iron Man for the 43rd time.  I’m like most guys.  When offered the choice of sleep or a midnight rerun of a movie, I choose the rerun every time.  What was different this time?  I actually learned something while watching it.  And you’ll definitely want to catch [...]

In 2011, I attended South by Southwest (SXSW) for the first time.  And this year, I received my SXSW Sophomore Badge on Foursquare.  There’s a lot of memories I could share about why I have a hippie lovefest for SXSW, or SXSWi for those that are interactively inclined.  But there is one story I’ve never [...]

When I was 14, I started investing in the stock market.  Growing up on a small farm in the middle of nowhere Kansas, you’d think Wall Street was the farthest thing from my mind.  But my financially obsessive mother got me hooked at a young age.  CNBC was my favorite channel.  And Warren Buffett my [...]

Space shuttle rocket boosters.  Those two narrow rockets attached to the shuttle provide 83% of the thrust needed to get it off the ground and into space.  Pretty freaking innovative if you ask me.  Turns out it’s more innovative than you think.  One part of innovation makes our lives better.  Turns out there is another [...]

I am a recovering stutterer.   I thought I was cured, but alas, the stutter bug has bit me again.  There are lots of cures out there for stuttering.  This post isn’t one of them.  In fact, it isn’t really about stuttering at all.  Let me explain.  But first, you need to understand what stuttering is [...]