While I seem to have lost most of my childhood memories, there are a few that still remain. Interestingly, many of them involve robots. This is my attempt to preserve these memories. Robot Story 1 – The Engineer: When I was 5 or 6 years old, I got the idea that I wanted to build… Read more »
Posts By: Scott
National Doughnut Day
A good friend tipped me off to the fact that today is National Doughnut Day. I have to admit that I didn’t know anything about it, but that is probably because none of the doughnut stores near me are giving away free doughnuts. Cheapskates. Anyway, the history of this important day can be found on… Read more »
Mormon Culture and Jargon: Mormon Missionaries (Part 2)
(This is part 2 of a 2 part series. Read part 1 here.) The mission administrative organization has its own complex and highly developed jargon. First of all, each mission, which consists of anywhere from 20 to 200 (or sometimes more) missionaries, is located geographically within an ‘area’, consisting of many missions, which are overseen… Read more »
Mormon Culture and Jargon: Mormon Missionaries (Part 1)
(This is part 1 of a 2 part series. Read part 2 here.) Variation in language occurs constantly and continuously throughout our society, and for each of us, whether we realize it or not, it is a daily experience. Social groups have dialects, jargon, and slang that oftentimes transcend geographical boundaries and provide cohesion among… Read more »
A Three-way Doughnut Duke-it-Out
(A quick note: Doughnuts are good, and any attempt to quantify their goodness is doomed to failure. This being true, I don’t have particularly high hopes for this post, but I’m not going to let that stop me.) As a self-proclaimed connoisseur of doughnuts, I have always expected