Category: Culture
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Self-Drive Cars [Near Future Prediction]
Listening to 16 episodes of the Four Cast Podcast has gotten me into a prediction mood. Here’s my first prediction: With an increasing array of dashboard distractions at driver’s disposal, there will be a statistically small but noticeable increase traffic accidents and fatalities in urban centers. Exhibit A) Studies are starting to emerge showing that…
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Where’s The Caffeine?
The most popular post on my blog to date is 5 Reasons Tim Hortons Sucks. In the post, I mentioned how terrible Tim Hortons coffee tastes. I failed to consider the actual caffeine levels of Tim Hortons. I did some digging around and calculating, Tim Hortons coffee has an average of 0.36mg/ml of caffeine. On…
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Nerd Nostalgia: Computer Chronicles
Computer Chronicles was very influential in my early development as a nerd. I had almost entirely forgotten about the show until a recent series of posts on reddit. The show covered the rise of the personal computer revolution in typical PBS news magazine type format. According to Wikipedia, the series ran from 1981 – 2002.…