Table of Contents:

• Essays on Faith written around April 24th, 2007
  
  This document chronicles my thoughts on Life, the Universe and Everything with a particular focus on things believed with little or no tangible evidence. I will wander from such topics as UFOs, religion, scientific theory, human observation and randomness. Hopefully I will be able to tie all these subjects together in such a way that, at a minimum, you, the reader, can see that my discussions have merit even if you think they are a bunch of crap. If I am really lucky I might bring a few of you readers toward my own faith, which encompasses all other faiths (whether or not I think those faiths are a bunch of crap).

• The Energy Bogeyman written May 8, 2008
  
  This little write-up discusses alternative energy and why the heck it is so hard for it to be successful. I will also talk a bit about how your tax dollars are being wasted on useless attempts to placate the masses with talk of alternatives and will briefly discuss the 'alternative' that I feel has the best chance of real long-term success.

  Initially I was motivated to write a book on the topic and this was to be the summary I would submit to publishers. I intended to write a 100-200 page book that would essentially expand each section into a chapter. After a lot of initial enthusiasm, I rapidly bogged down when my research indicated that a new author has about as much chance of publishing a successful book as he has of winning the lottery. Several years ago I tried to market a proposal to write an information security book targeted toward middle managers giving them the tools and information to cost-justify the addition of security to IT projects. Even though I had a really nice sound byte from a senior Microsoft security engineer, I wasn't able to get interest from either of the publishers I approached (yes, I know that people get rejected all the time, but I can easily live without being a published author, so don't care for it). This time I felt I would make use of a literary agent thinking that would help solve my problem, but it seems that getting an agent is at least as much work as getting a book published in the first place! Add to all this the fact that a well received book sells 10-20K copies (in total!) and the average payment to the author is $1-3 per book, and you can see how there isn't a lot of economic payback. So, I dropped the idea and stuck the proposal here where probably a handful of friends and family will see it and that will be all. Such is life...

• Why We Die or A Short Course On Evolution written November 13, 2008
  
  A conversation with my good friend Doug got me thinking on this subject, so I decided to take some time to write up my thoughts. Hopefully you can get some amusement out of it.

• A View To Marraige written spring/summer 2011
  
  This is yet another book idea, but this time I was working with a partner. A co-worker, with whom I became close friends, and I had very wide ranging discussions over a wide number of topics and at some point covered marriage and dealing with spouses. He regaled me with his experiences learning the tricks of the pickup community and applying those elements he thought valuable to making his marriage a happier one. Because I found the topic interesting and amusing I suggested we collaborate on a book and try to make a few bucks. Well, long story short, he moved on to another job and we agreed to allow the project to die and I made one half-hearted attempt to find an agent, then stuck a somewhat cleaned-up version here for the two or three people who might ever read it.

• One Trillion People! written summer of 2011
  
  I have been studying aquaponics for a long time and found an article that reported the output of hydroponics in a 30x60 greenhouse (a whopping 10K lbs/month!) and was inspired to calculate how many calories the greenhouse produced and then how many people could live off that amount. I then caculated how many people could be supported if everyone got there food from such a system and found to my amazement that just 10% of the land surface could support over a trillion people

  Note: if you would like to discuss this paper, I have started a blog and you can access the post on this paper here.

• The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number written August 2012
  
  An effort to elucidate my thoughts on how society benefits from the greatest good for the greatest number and exactly what I mean by that.

  If you would like to discuss the article, please go here.

• Frothing Moderates, also at Rant, Waxology
  Some thoughts on why the political middle is so under represented.

• Does Might Make Right, also at Rant
  I feel some people think too highly of the human species, so this is a somewhat cynical take on how things work.

• The American InJustice System Part I, also at Rant, Waxology
  A two part (three part, actually, if you include my 'solution') take on the US 'Justice' system.

• The American InJustice System Part II, also at Rant, Waxology

• Mitakeet's InJustice System, also at Rant, Waxology
  My idea of what would constitute a less injust justice system.

• Poll Tax, also at Rant
  An extension of ideas in American InJustice System Part II, but for more than just juries.