Month: January 2012

Space Is For Whatever You Want

Robert Zubrin has asked, how much is an astronaut’s life worth? The answer according to NASA turns out to be about 5 billion dollars. That was the justification for deciding not perform some repairs on the Hubble that would extend it’s life for another 10...

A Business Model For The Music Industry

Suppose an artist records an album and makes it available for free, under Creative Commons. People will share it, remix it, whatever they like. The artist won’t make any money. But, if people like it a lot, they’ll want more. So to get the next album, they...

The Most Interesting Thing About Me

We were doing some stupid networking exercise in school the other day, and I guess I decided to be kinda mean, and kinda have fun with it. I put a guy on the spot, barely talked to him once before that day, and said, “What’s the most interesting thing...

Earth Sucks

I think life on earth is just about played out. There all these people working in boring jobs so that they can afford to buy shit, and all these companies trying to produce more shit so they can sell it to the boring people. I’m not interested in buying shit or...