Author Archives: Michael M.

I paid my credit card bill on Monday using my iPhone. On Sunday, I filed my taxes from my iPhone. Smartphones are now ubiquitous hubs of shopping, banking, and finance for even the most non-tech savvy users. We are able to do this securely and safely through encryption, which protects data from theft, surveillance, andContinue reading “On the iPhone, Encryption, & Our Right to Privacy”

GIF created by Helen Green  I woke up at about six this morning and checked my phone, like I do any other morning. Unfortunately, for the third time in the past month-and-a-half, I learned an iconic singer’s death. As I scrolled through Twitter and Google News, David Bowie’s death began to make sense, as much as the passingContinue reading “On David Bowie”

My dad broke his glasses a couple years ago. As he bent them, bragging about their flexibility and strength, they snapped like twigs underfoot. I am my father’s son. As we ate dinner at Applebee’s on Saturday night, I bemoaned the awful fingerprint sensor on my year-old Galaxy S5 to my brother. I decided toContinue reading “Why I am dumping my Galaxy S5 for an iPhone 5s”

As I stood on the spectator mound in turn two of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, waiting for stock cars to hit the track for a tire test, I had to do a double take as I scrolled through my phone. Jeff Gordon’s driving the pace car at the 500?  It seemed like something a third-tier motorsportsContinue reading “Jeff Gordon: A worthy pace car driver for the Greatest Spectacle in Racing”

An 10-year old me meets Dan in 2004 My family is coming over today. This means I have to clean my room, a quick once-over to clear surfaces of dust to accommodate my obsessive-compulsive tendencies. I move toward my bookshelf. A book autographed by NASCAR legend Donnie Allison topples over, a result of my shelf’sContinue reading “Remembering Dan”