Daemon Bob

So what is a "daemon"? The origin of the word is Greek and refers to a minor spirit. As related to computers, it dates back to the 60s and MIT's project MAC. They took the term from "Maxwell's Demon," a hypothetical creature able to let only the hot air molecules flow into a favored side of a split chamber. Somehow this seems appropriate for me.

Monday, January 28, 2013

Macroeconomic manipulation

One problem with using policy to alter macroeconomic results with the goal to improve the standard of living for a society is as follows: ...

Friday, May 27, 2011

Zero Calorie Sugar

So when does 3.36 = 0? When it's the calorie content of Splenda. According to the FDA, if a single serving of something contains fewer...

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Too May Teachers Not Enough Students

I want to start by professing some of my ignorance here: I have never been a teacher, I have never studied "Education", so I may b...

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Legislative implications for "Birther" scenerio

(disclaimer: I'm agnostic on the question of Obama's place of birth, and I am neither a lawyer nor a constitutional scholar - I just...

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

They Live

Some days I look at the world around me and I feel like such an alien. Every so often I get a glimpse of the alien in someone else and I...

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Why conventionally grown tofu is the key to our continued prosperity...

One of my favorite Biology teachers in college, Dr. Pinter, had something to say in response to the pro-vegetarian argument that fewer resou...

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Labor Justice

So the knee-jerk reaction to low-priced foreign imports is the imposition of tariffs and other restrictions on their importation in an attem...

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