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Won’t see them again ’til the fourth of July

sixf00t4 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:00:41 +0000

“Give them a torch, and someone will start yelling, “FIRE!”"

– Joshua Hall

In context, I came up with this phrase when I was trying to help a business group at work by giving them information about a technology plan to make updates to PCs. Since I told them, they started pointing at that plan for all of their computer problems, even though they were not related at all. If I hadn’t given them the information, they might have actually had to figure out what the real problems were. I can’t really think of another phrase that compares, but surely there are other situations that warrant the saying.

Imagine all the people

sixf00t4 — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:00:18 +0000

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

– Albert Einstein

Hall’s Rule of Social Order #86

sixf00t4 — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:00:21 +0000

The only way to get ahead in life is to own your own business.

I could be your super hero

sixf00t4 — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:00:14 +0000

I wish I could be invisible. Yeah, flying is nice, but it sounds tiresome. I think invisibility has at least the possibility of happening, I mean, as soon as we figure out how to bend light.

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Hall’s Rule of Social Order #7

sixf00t4 — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:00:02 +0000

You can do anything. It’s sounds cliche, but it’s true. You define what you perceive as your limitations. It’s also important to not that just because you can do anything, doesn’t mean you’d enjoy it, or that it would come as easy as it does for others.

The bloom box

sixf00t4 — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:00:58 +0000

Have you heard about the Bloom Box yet? Probably not. It’s been featured on 60 minutes earlier this year, but still is a pretty quiet technology. It’s a clean energy source that can power the average american home in the size of a gallon of milk.

First off, this thing is legit. This isn’t just some guy doing crazy things that work on paper or theory in his garage, but aren’t financially feasible. This is NASA technology. Or, at least, it was, until K.R. Sridhar spun off from his research there to pursue this. This isn’t just some new start up firm looking for funding to complete it’s work. Google, eBay, and WalMart are all using their fuel cells. This just got real.

This is the future of energy. Small, cheap, clean, and reliable. Did I mention it runs on oxygen?

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/the-bloom-box-a-power-plant-for-the-home-video/

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0222/Bloom-Box-What-60-Minutes-left-out

Swallow it down; what a jagged little pill

sixf00t4 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:14:37 +0000

The internet is a place of free information by people just like you and me. Sure, the quality of that information varies greatly, but it’s still information. As they say, Human knowledge belongs to the world! So here are the top 100 documentary movies free to watch online. There are some real gems in there.

http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/01/100-best-free-science-documentaries-online/