A screen booted on, just as the first coffee was coursing through his veins. Smooth jazz played in the back. It was like most mornings. The bosses check your mouse movements so you gotta get up in time, at least in time just to start everything and make it look...

Chris now has a kid I don't remember her name, but when we were in school together no one thought he could do that. Its not he was voted least likely to have a kid, or anyone said that specifically but just he wasn't destined for greatness or fatherhood or...

Back on that improv, been away for awhile. I know improve comedy is kind of lame.  But it has something very theoretically beautiful to it. Similar to Jazz but more approachable. Could be a less cool jazz. The acapella version of standup comedy. 

In it though the whole idea is...

On the way to work I had a thought about people, specifically this paper. Where researchers found that when trying to problem solve people tend to use addition rather than subtraction . Addition in the sense of adding variables to find a solution rather than subtracting. The authors give an...

Today I started work early while writing and it was a nice way to start. No one in the lab, a cup of coffee . Lately I have been writing a lot about clarity , and I feel like in professional life that is the reason I have been writing....

The point wasn't that I got a punch card. I mean I paid for the coffee. I got the stamp and it was supposed to be just that. Its just after I walked away,  my friend comes to me and he got more stamps, and he didn't buy anything. One...

Last weekend I had a meeting and some of the questions I asked weren’t really liked by the presenter. Others questions people said were. I think in some aspects I missed judged the presentation, in that it was more technical and the person was new to the project so they...

Notes of today I met a nice couple and had beers. There was a dog and a baby, and it was the bartenders. Who was very nice but didn’t actually remember me.  But that’s fine. He was nice enough, and gave me beer and asked about what I was doing...

I work with a chemist who doesn't really talk. But every meeting he presents 10 new molecules he made. Its nice when he does talk, because he always sums up things  no one says out loud, but they feel it. Today he said that research and science is like a...

I am not someone who bitches. And I hate it when people do, its just man, everyday are you kidding me, and he has the indecency to text me on the weekend. How are you? How am I? Working, on the weekend, for barely any extra money thats how I...