by Mark Mason | Feb 4, 2008 | Miscellaneous
Super Bowl XLII on February 3, 2008, was one of the greatest football games I have ever watched. The New England Patriots came in with a perfect 18-0 record, chasing the first undefeated season since the 1972 Miami Dolphins. The New York Giants had other plans. The...
by Mark Mason | Feb 3, 2008 | Miscellaneous
In February 2008, my niece asked me about a song called “Kiss Kiss” by Chris Brown. I had never heard of Chris Brown, which I took as a sign that I was getting old. The fact that I referred to his music as being on an “album” instead of a...
by Mark Mason | Jan 3, 2008 | Miscellaneous
Some of the best content on the internet has nothing to do with business. In January 2008, I shared my dad's potato soup recipe on the blog, and it remains one of those posts that reminds me why I started blogging in the first place: to share things that matter to me....
by Mark Mason | Jan 1, 2008 | Miscellaneous
On New Year's Day 2008, I published my ten-step plan for losing weight. This was one of my two resolutions for the year, and being an engineer, I could not help but approach it with analytical rigor. The core premise was simple: weight loss is not rocket science, it...
by Mark Mason | Dec 25, 2007 | Miscellaneous
Right around Christmas 2007, my buddy Tom sent me an email about a neat way to teach kids about how the Earth revolves around the sun. His idea was simple: visit a website that showed real-time satellite imagery of the Earth with the daylight and shadow terminator...
by Mark Mason | Dec 22, 2007 | Miscellaneous, Video
In December 2007, I was fascinated by a demonstration video of the MTHEL, the Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser. As an engineer, I could not help but geek out over the technology, even while acknowledging the complicated political implications of laser weapons...
