A dishonor to the true spirit of the Aggies

To President Murano, Vice President Weber, Executive Director Garner, and the Battalion:
I consider myself to be a proud member of the Aggie family. Both of my parents, an uncle, my wife, two of her cousins and my younger brother attended Texas A&M University. I graduated from Texas A&M with my B.S. in Computer Science in [...]

Biden makes two.

So on a June 20th of last year I made my predictions for the 2008 race. McCain/Huckabee and Edwards/Biden. While I was wrong, much to my surprise and delight, about Edwards. Looks like I did get the VP for the Dems (in addition to the Rep Presidential nominee). I’m still crossing my fingers on the [...]

Too dumb to understand aerodynamics, but smart enough to understand technology centuries beyond modern science.

So I’m watching a interesting program on the history of the meat packing and butchering industries on the History Channel. The program ends and a new one called “The UFO Hunters” starts. The topic of today’s episode is reverse engineering of alien technology. In short, they are claiming that the majority of major [...]

Patriotism

I consider myself a patriot. Not in the sense the right-wingers want us to think it. I do not wear American Flag pins, I don’t blindly follow the President, and I don’t see America as flawless. I am a Patriot by the true American sense, by the founding fathers sense. I believe in the rule [...]

The Bryan-College Station Eagle’s Father’s Day contest and dishonesty.

So for Father’s Day 2008, our local paper had a best father-child photo contest. Some facts about the winning photo. It was a grandfather-grandchild photo which is slightly outside the rules, but not so bad. The really bad part was the number of votes. 1.4 million. Yes a paper in a metro area of 150,000 [...]