A number of people have told me I think too hard. Usually after I ask a difficult question that they never bothered to ask themselves. But I think most people don't think hard enough. These types will probably be frustrated or bored with my blog, on which I plan to unravel all the idiotic ramblings and speech impediments, and get down to the chewy caramel center of the pressing issues I think too hard about. I might also make occasional pithy commentary on noteworthy events in my life or in the world at large.

Right now I'm interning at Flowserve Corp in LA. Despite what you might think, industrial pump engineering is not particularly exciting. Even in the R&D department. Working at Flowserve has made me acutely aware of the need for a more sophisticated version of minesweeper that never requires you to guess. There's nothing quite like cleverly finding mines for hundres of heartpounding seconds only to realize at the end that you have no choice but to guess, and guessing wrong. I think it would make a slightly tricky programming challenge that I'll probably never get around to. Now it's time to watch another X-Files episode. I just started season 2, and hope to get through 8 by the end of the summer. It's all about the torrent.