"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - J. Krishnamurty

- Game of Thrones
- Professor dr. Michio Kaku
- Minecraft
- Simon & Lewis
- Battlestar Galactica
- Caro Emerald
- Stargate
- Hector: Badge of Carnage
- Star Trek
- Babylon 5
- Online Gaming
- Skyrim
- Quantum physics

"My grandmother taught me how to play the game monopoly. Now, my grandmother was a wonderful person, but she was the most ruthless Monopoly player I have ever known in my life. She understood that the name of the game is to acquire. When we would play when I was a little kid and I got my money from the bank, I would always want to save it, hang on to it, because it was just so much fun to have money.

She spent on everything she landed on. And then, when she bought it, she would mortgage it as much as she could and buy everything else she landed on. She would accumulate everything she could. And eventually, she became the master of the board. And every time I landed, I would have to pay her money. And eventually, every time she would take my last dollar, I would quit in utter defeat.

And then she would always say the same thing to me. She'd look at me and she'd say, 'one day, you'll learn to play the game'. I hated it when she said that to me.

But one summer, I played Monopoly with a neighbor kid, a friend of mine, almost every day, all day long. We'd play Monopoly for hours. And that summer, I learned to play the game. I came to understand the only way to win is to make a total commitment to acquisition. I came to understand that money and possessions, that's the way that you keep score. And by the end of that summer, I was more ruthless than my grandmother. I was ready to bend the rules if I had to, to win that game.

And I sat down with her to play that fall. Slowly, cunningly, I exposed my grandmother's vulnerability. Relentlessly, inexorably, I drove her off the board. I took everything she had. I destroyed her financially and psychologically. I watched her give her last dollar and quit in utter defeat. It was the greatest moment of my life.

And then she had one more thing to teach me. Then she said, 'now it all goes back in the box: all those houses and hotels, all the railroads and utility companies, all that property, and all that wonderful money, now it all goes back in the box'.

I didn't want it to go back in the box. I wanted to leave the board out, bronze it maybe, as a memorial to my ability to play the game. 'No,' she said, 'none of it was really yours. You got all heated up about it for a while, but it was around a long time before you sat down at the board, and it will be here after you're gone. Players come and players go. But it all goes back in the box'.

And the game always ends. For every player, the game ends. Every day you pick up a newspaper, and you can turn to a page that describes people for whom this week the game ended. Skilled businessmen, an aging grandmother who was in a convalescent home with a brain tumor, teenage kids who think they have the whole world in front of them, and somebody drives through a stop sign. It all goes back in the box: houses and cars, titles and clothes, filled barns, bulging portfolios, even your body."