Obsessed With Everything

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire"-William Butler Yeats

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Buster: I’M A MONSTER!

Motherboy XXX - 2x13

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No Half Measures

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Got back on the road today

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Possibly the greatest moment in a long line of Dean Pelton scenes! Have cried laughing every time

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Invictus "Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." -William Ernest Henley

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182194

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What the Fox Knows

Really excited about the FiveThirtyEight launch this week. Interesting site fusing journalism with statistics. Even within the first five days I've found a bunch of fascinating articles. Here is Nate Silver's (editor-in-chief) philosophy statement for founding the site.

FiveThirtyEight is a data journalism organization. Let me explain what we mean by that, and why we think the intersection of data and journalism is so important. If you're a casual reader of FiveTh...

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Towering over the fields of Mongolia sits a massive Genghis Khan statue surveying his once domain. Atop a hill in Erdene, Mongolia the massive 131 foot tall was constructed in 2008 to commemorate the once brutal leader who may have been the greatest tactical general in history. Thanks to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History I've been learning about his conquests in his Podcast Series "Wrath of the Khans".  A brilliant leader who had an eye for talent that put his armies in a higher class than any other middle age army.  His philosophy and advanced government directly contradicted his actions of mass terror. His strategy was to exact such horrific vengeance from cities that did not instantly surrender to drive enemies to give up before ever drawing a blade. He killed 11% of the people alive in the world in the early 1200's AD but united the East and West while conquering more lands than any other person in history.  He truly is one of the most fascinating and frightening figures mankind has to offer.