I got a kick out of seeing this video. It’s a timelapse video taken of a cruise ship going through the Panama Canal. The fun bits with locks are at the beginning and end; in the middle there’s quite a large lake that needs to be sailed across.
My old boat (the USS Hartford, [...]

I’ve long had this theory that at any given time, the University of Michigan can only have two successful sports of the three top sports: football, basketball, and ice hockey. (Aka, the sports where Michigan has traditionally excelled.)
A key data point has come this year: Michigan’s football team collapsed. But to even out [...]

In honor of Valentine’s Day, from one of the CUER mailing lists…
How do I love you?
Let me count the ways:
If you were an A.C. voltage
I’d keep you in phase
If you could transmit a moment
I would want to twist you
If you were a current through me
I could not resist you
If you were a scalar
I would give [...]

I’ve read the New York Times since I got a great deal as a freshman at the University of Michigan for daily delivery to my dorm room. It’s a great newspaper in my view, with some really solid reporting both in the US and internationally.
But today I read an article that made me think [...]

I have a slight confession to make. While I got my undergrad degree in engineering, I’ve always enjoyed reading and try to read quite a bit. By all rights, I should detest grammar, and in many ways I do. (Probably because I never really learned it properly.) But that said, I’m [...]

So a little over a year ago or so I was thinking about Twitter. Twitter is a tool that is both a type of social network (like Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) but is also a type of communications tool. I noticed that certain people posted on Twitter constantly, and used the communications tool functionality [...]

I found this via Brad Feld, and saw that Furqan blogged about it, too.
It’s a short & simple video from Will Smith (the “Fresh Prince”) and his two keys to life: Running and Reading. Because if you want to succeed, you’ve got to be willing to work harder than anyone else.
Though I can’t help [...]

I originally heard about StateStats from Fred Wilson, of A VC fame. It sounded interesting. To quote the site:
This tool shows you how popular a Google search query is in each U.S. state, giving a ranking like the one you see in the left column. It then compares this ranking with other ways [...]