codyg1985’s Think Tank

I love to visit social bookmarking sites such as Digg and Reddit. Those sites comprise about 75% of my news gathering on a typical day.  It is a great way of keeping up with not only news events, but funny, informative, and even sometimes blasphemous material. However, these sites are a two-way street: your reputation […]

The more and more I read about Barack Obama, the more I liked about him. He champions net neutrality. He supports funding education and health care. He wants to bring our troops home, and he says it without being a hypocrite. I attended a Barack Obama rally in Birmingham, AL in January right before the […]

I am a pretty good student. I don’t like to brag (I have a 3.85 GPA). I get a lot of offers to join these honors societies, and I have been getting them ever since last year.  Some are open to engineers. Others don’t discriminate based on major.  Many others are service organizations. Still others […]

I am in the thinking mood tonight.
The candidates for President are on the campaign trail talking about the usual talking points. For the Republicans it is all about national security, family values, immigration, and lowering taxes while for the Democrats it is about health care, the economy, the war in Iraq, education, and tax breaks […]

This is going to be one of the most contested elections for President since the election of Dwight D Eisenhower in 1952. The 2008 Presidential Election could also be a historic one, since it will be the first change in president since September 11th. There are many hot-button issues these days, and there are a […]

Have you stocked up on milk and bread? Do you have a generator? If not, then you may not survive the great Blizzard of 2008. The TV people say it is gonna get worse and that people must be careful. After all, snow causes accidents. Just one flake can cause massive amounts of accidents and […]

Today is one of those days where severe weather is expected across Alabama. The Storm Prediction Center has placed northern Alabama under a moderate risk of severe weather for Thursday, which usually means there is a pretty good chance of tornadoes, hail, or strong winds.  Schools are sending kids home early.  When I was a […]

One hobby of mine is to keep up with each county that I visit as I travel across the United States.  Simply put, if I set foot inside a county, I keep track with it using this map.  It is an interesting way of keeping up with where you have been, and it is more […]

A friend and I were talking about how politicians were in general just annoying and extremely skillful about dodging questions.  So in an effort to make the election process more entertaining and perhaps more revealing, I propose a new reality show that would showcase the candidates:
[14:50] Me: i just can’t stand most politicians….they have it […]

I have been doing a lot of reading and thinking lately about the universe and how it came to be.  How did it begin?  Will the universe end, and if so, how will it end?  What was there before the universe began? Did the universe begin at all?
The most commonly accepted theory to describe how […]