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We forget that Indianapolis could have been the world’s automotive hub instead of Detroit. There were car manufacturers–including the Marmon Motor Car company, which won the first Indianapolis 500 with Ray Harroun–who made their home in the Circle City. Indianapolis is a city defined by automobiles; auto racing is our biggest export. Hell, the firstContinue reading “On Tesla & Indiana”

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”