Elemental Souls

If you have ever dabbled in Wordpress plugin development, you have no doubt faced the various monotonies involved therein. Among those annoyances is storing and retrieving data from the Wordpress database by way […]

While nobody actually reads this blog (outside the other Elemental Souls that is, and probably not even them). I had still wanted to put out content regularly as if to appease some actual readers. Well Fall Quarter came, beat the shit out of me, and has now finally left. So to all you imaginary readers, [...]

It used to be That I would see, When I closed my eyes, A fantastic surprise: Crimson skies A chimera flies. Medieval wars And saboteurs, A ship that soars And the space she explores! Dreams were the key That set me free The escapists delight Avoid the plight By taking flight I’ll never fight I’d rather run My magic gun Truth’s undone, I shoot to stun… But this old story Is now a memory Time gave me a [...]

A shiver runs up my spine and goosebumps prickle at my skin. It's moments like this - rare though they are - that I know I've fallen completely and utterly and entirely in love with the beauty of Life, and I want to much to express it! I want to draw, to paint, to sing, [...]

I promise to never forget what matters most.

Take a step back. Look at yourself. You are human. You are beautiful. You are so beautiful. And you can be anything. You can be everything. Do not hate because someone broke your heart, or because your parents split up, your best friend betrayed you, your father hit you, the kid down the street called you [...]

Needed: 2-4 people with advanced paragliding/paramotoring licenses and equipment RV or travel trailer  Overview:  Paragliding or paramotoring troupe travels from town to town offering tandem flights to locals.  The troupe would have no fixed location which would eliminate that pesky rent expense. Pricing could therefore be extremely competitive or have a high enough profit margin to support not stressing about [...]

So after 4575 words of stupid fall TV talk, I’m just about finished. There’s some cable highlights to go over and then just add some final thoughts about the upcoming fall programming. FX’s signature series Sons of Anarchy premiered its 4 th season last Tuesday. FX has a lot of good stuff on its network and [...]

FOX is an interesting network. They get a lot of flak from nerds (like myself) because they cancelled Firefly, they cancelled Dollhouse, they cancelled The Sarah Connor Chronicles. But it can be looked at another way: they’re the network that actually put these shows on the air. I’d have been shocked to see these [...]

So apparently, most businesses don’t actually do most of their paperwork themselves because the cost of hiring an American employee is far more expensive than hiring someone from a less developed economy. With technology like email, it makes sense to send as much work as possible away to MBA level employees who work for fry cook [...]

ABC is a weird network. They can’t easily be put into a nice little box, and it sort of is all over the place as far as programming is concerned. Unfortunately this can be translated as “Much of what ABC has brought to the table the last 2 years, hasn’t been good.” Making things [...]

The human body is remarkably able to adapt.  Any constant stimulus quickly becomes accounted for as the body strives to maintain equilibrium.  Be it tolerance to drugs, plateaus while exercising, acceptance of a mediocre life, even driving for a long time will make the world seem to drift away from you for a while once you [...]

UPDATE: In the original version of this post I forgot to talk about Person of Interest. CBS is the most successful of the 5 major US networks. And it’s been successful by following a formula. They make character focused investigation procedurals that are easy to syndicate. And they make character focused crowd-pleasing comedies that [...]

NBC is still currently defined by the mess that the Jay Leno show left back in 2009. In the spring of 2009 seeing lower ratings for all of its shows NBC decided to take a gamble and give Jay Leno a show 5 nights a week at 10 pm essentially removing 4-5 hours of [...]

The CW is the perennial 4th place network. And has a terrible habit of failing to make good shows. They dedicate most of their lineup to the likes of America's Next Top Model, Gossip Girl, 90210, etc. It's really pathetic when you realize some of the brilliance that came out of the network's predecessor [...]

Résumé- A brief account of one's professional or work experience and qualifications, often submitted with an employment application. Flambé - A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food, and then the fumes are ignited. Résumé Flambé- A showy working technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to your professional [...]

I mean trail in the metaphoric sense of ‘life path’ and blazing in the literal sense of ‘burning fiercely’… I considered naming this section ‘How I Intend to Destroy my Career and any Hope of a Traditional Life’ because it was more descriptive, but this fits in the box to the right. If there is still [...]

Being a student of industrial engineering, I’m always looking for ways to make things more efficient. This often means a lot of charts and diagrams to reorganize work into a, more or less, optimal system.But then I found Parkinson’s Law: “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion”   So now I just procrastinate on everything as [...]

The History A few months ago I decided I'd begin delving into the world of electronics. Computers and software's fun and all, but the idea of creating physical systems that interact with computers AND humans just totally blows my mind!! The Arduino's long been the preferred entry point to electronics hobbiests (I'm looking at you, Warpling!), but I had a [...]