Sometimes I encounter a person who claims Star Trek is better than Star Wars. While there are many, many ways to refute this utterly ridiculous claim, I like to point…

The more I work with people—students and adults—the more convinced I've become that confidence is the most important quality a person can possess. Confidence is often the difference between performing…

The Museum of Endangered Sounds is a website dedicated to preserving the sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronic equipment. Dot matrix printers. Dial-up internet. The Windows…

I learned a new word this week thanks to one of my favorite newsletters, Numlock News: Backronym Definition: An acronym deliberately formed from a phrase whose initial letters spell out…

Just for the record: Climate change is accepted as a dangerous reality by all reasonable people. Democrats and Republicans alike. In 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released…

An 18-year-old hacker from Oxford has been sentenced to indefinite confinement after a series of astounding cybercrimes. While on bail for hacking Nvidia and the phone company, the hacker’s laptop…

A student asked me, "Why would anyone start smoking? It just means you'll have fewer friends." It's a good point. Though smokers and nonsmokers don't always segregate themselves from one…

I was punched in the face - twice - in a dream last night. Both times, I argued that I had been sucker-punched, but in both cases, my combatants disagreed.…

Years ago, a principal was running my school, and he was a monster. A narcissist of the highest order. We had no affection for each other, and we made it…

Years ago, on the way to Florida, my best friend and I played the “Best of All-Time” game, in which competitors must argue for the best of all time in…