I was initially a big fan of Google+, and I still think it is a more privacy friendly social networking platform than Facebook. However, Google’s insistence on real names in the service is concerning. I’ve always used my real name online, but I certainly understand that for many people, there are very good reasons to [...]
Twenty years, really? Since that day we said I do. I’m a lucky guy.
We should all be familiar with the tragedy of the commons, right? It’s a basic economic principal. However, watching the news makes it abundantly clear that many people are not familiar, so here it is. The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally [...]
When I was in high school and college there was a lot of talk about how much better off we’d all be after we shipped all the dirty, labor intensive manufacturing jobs overseas, so we could all live a life of luxury reporting to work every day to do the creative, intellectual work that could [...]
I left this as a comment on Google +, but it got long enough to become a blog post on its on, so I’m sharing it here too. The article linked below is a middle school teacher thinking out loud about how we teach history in the US. It’s mostly about the wars, and the [...]
For the first time since I was about 13 years old, I don’t have ESPN on cable. The Red Sox were on last night. I do , however, have ESPN3 vis the Xbox, and the Red Sox game was streaming live. It was sort of a different game watching experience. First of all, the Xbox [...]
