Authority
I figured it out. I don't have a problem with authority, I have a problem with pretending that people who know less than me know more than me. I have no problem following somebody's leadership if they are legitimately more skilled. Nor do I have a problem following leadership if they have leadership skills and charisma, but understand my skill set. But when people legitimately lack skills that I have, and try to use their authority to get me to do something that I could do better without their "help", I get a bit belligerent.
Read MoreGreen Primer
For my senior design project, I'm designing tools to help architects be more energy efficient. Check it out here.
Read MoreVee
I have some ideas for a vim-inspired modal editor that's scriptable in the same language that it's written. The inability to script VIM is my biggest problem with the editor these days. I've thrown together some proof of concepts, but I don't have time to do real development work on Vee right now - hopefully, it's something I'll be able to complete in the future. Follow its progress here.
Read MoreCM
I'm writing a haml-inspired markup language designed to play nicely with django. Follow its progress here.
Read MoreStarCraft: Reborn
I run a team of people remaking StarCraft in the StarCraft 2 engine. You can find more information here.
Read MoreAtheist Manifesto
I just sent the below note to a religious friend of mine. It turned out to be pretty articulate, which is rare for me, so I thought I would post it here for the world to see.
Read MoreSongs don't tell a story
In elementary school, we all had to take a music class. Most of us really weren't into creating our own music. I certainly wasn't. One day, in a misguided attempt to inspire us, our music teacher told us that all songs told a story. At ten years old, I wondered how this could be true: there's emotion in a song, but no words. How could you get a story from a song? How could you be sure it was the story that the artist was trying to tell?
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