Blog – Malcolm's Ramblings

Guaranteed Income Program

I recently found a very interesting discussion on Reddit about welfare programs. Someone asked if the US would save or spend more money if they cut all the current programs and changed to a flat-rate, guaranteed minimum income system, click here to read the full Reddit post. A user, by the name of imkharn, responded Read more
Running the 2014 WordPress Theme

I am now running one of the new default themes that WordPress ships with. Created for the next major release, Twenty-Fourteen has been added to WordPress.com. From it’s release post: For the first time ever, the yearly default theme for WordPress is ready to go before its namesake year begins. Consider it an early holiday Read more
Markdown, WordPress and Me

My job lately has been to work with converting our documentation for Gravity Forms from MediaWiki to Markdown. One of the developers has worked on markdown rendering for WordPress, and now it looks like WordPress.com has added Markdown processing. What is Markdown? Markdown is a set of rules for writing text that is processed and Read more
Another Weight Loss Update

Tonight, I will be going to Weight Watchers with Annie and her sisters. I think I will be up, and probably a good three or four pounds. I took a week off from my weight loss journey this week, and while I didn’t track my weekend, I did track everything else, and I wasn’t really Read more
Star Trek: Secrets – Page 7

Read Star Trek: Secrets – Page 6 Exiting the turbolift, Leon was presented with a transparent hallway. His ship, the Raven, could be seen on the other side. It was long and sleek, looking like smaller, more aggressive Defiant class ship. It was built for speed, and stealth, but weapons were identifiable all over the Read more
Marriage Prep: Complete

Annie and I finished our Marriage Preparation course with the Church this past weekend. It was a marathon ten and a half hours of speeches, activities, conversations, music and praying. Overall, I found the course to be pretty good. Read my previous thoughts on marriage prep here: Marriage Prep Course. Throughout the day, I continued Read more
Second Class Supers – Page 62

Read Second Class Supers – Page 61 The sun had already set as Marge led Kya to the First Gen village. Shimmying along the fence, the entrance was even harder to find than before. They arrived at the wall at the same time as a trio of Shadow Striders. “Callidus?” Kya asked the three covered Read more
Star Trek: Secrets – Page 6

Read Star Trek: Secrets – Page 5 “Hey Leon!” An older, but chipper voice came through the still opening airlock to the station. Despite not being able to see who it was on the other side, he recognized it as the engineering chief, Commander O’Donnell. Once he was completely revealed, Leon gave a nod to Read more
100 Percent Wind Powered Denmark

Denmark is making the news today because it has had a day where its wind power energy production was higher than its total usage (Source: Energy Transition). As a country, they are looking to have one hundred percent of their energy be from renewable resources by 2050. The Danes have loads of relatively inexpensive wind Read more
Hearthstone Beta

So, I’m in the Hearthstone Beta, and I’m enjoying it a great deal. I haven’t got the strategy down yet and my cousin Kyle is beating me about eighty percent of the time when we play against each other, but it is still a great game. For those that don’t know, Hearthstone is a World Read more
Self Replicating Probes

There is a post on io9 that really appealed to me today, and got the science fiction center of my brain running on full tilt. It was entitled, How Self-Replicating Spacecraft Could Take Over the Galaxy and it discussed two things: how we could explore the galaxy using probes that could build other probes, and Read more
Second Class Supers – Page 60

Read Second Class Supers – Page 59 With everything that Sam had done for Kya, she felt a strong need to get to him quickly. She had no proof that Don was going to be an issue and track her down, but if he did, she didn’t want anyone else to get hurt. The apartment Read more