Smoke Detectors & Refrigerators

Boots up in 7 seconds! No traditional hard drive! No need for anti-virus software! Never worry about anything. Google will take care of it for you. Get on-board Google’s new Chrome OS. This is my favorite part – “Chrome OS netbooks will not have traditional hard disk drives — they will rely on non-volatile flash…

On Thursday, the company where I’m working had their big Christmas luncheon. I skipped it for some priceless alone time with a working computer and silence. Ah, what I can accomplish in forty minutes without distraction. Then- They came back. My current co-workers started flooding in and my time came to an end. Immediately, one…

As a child, growing up in Ohio, I thought a potato chip was a potato chip. When you only ever eat one brand, you have no reason to think any differently. Then, I grew up, went out into the world and ate potato chips of all makes and models. One day, I came to the…

Visibility does give rise to change. The more people who live open lives, the more people are forced to accept the fact that differences won’t go away just because they believe that everyone should be uniform, and, by uniform, of course, I mean exactly like them. Not only is Zachary Quinto coming out important as…