During an otherwise shoddy decade, the US Mint spent most of the aughts engaged in a noble attempt to lift our nation’s spirit with its delightfully patriotic 50 State Quarters Program. Following that program’s overwhelming success (e.g. no one got hurt, many people continued to use quarters), the mint shrewdly undertook a shorter, but no [...]
After a solid century of corn-inspired confectionary, the marketing masterminds behind the world’s most artificial vegetable, candy corn, have finally noticed that there’s nothing particularly Halloween-related about their product*. As such, my own mother snagged the last bag of red and pink (yes, you heard right, RED and PINK!!!) candy corn at Varsono’s Chocolates in [...]
A brief educational retrospective:
1999: Eric graduates Stuyvesant Highschool and begins attending Brown University. At the time, he foolishly assumes that his affiliation with Brown will be limited to a mere four years.
2003: Eric graduates from Brown University with an Bachelor of Science in Applied Math/CS. In a shrewd attempt to avoid joining the workforce, or [...]