Mark Pike

I’m a dork for keeping track, but today is the three year anniversary of this blog.
If you ever get insanely bored, and you’ve already read every other website in the world, check out the archives of this place. It starts with me going door to door during the 2004 presidential election. Next, you can find [...]

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“Why do you want to travel to Israel?” asks the El Al security agent just prior to my departing flight. Thousands of answers run through my mind, but the one that reaches my tongue is “To see the sights I’ve learned about since I was a child.”
I’m back, and I took plenty of photos and [...]

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I will be in Israel for the next 2 weeks.
I did not want to go on this trip until there was peace in the Middle East; however, I also wanted to go in this lifetime.
I meant to write more before I left, but chances are I’ll probably have a lot more interesting things to share [...]

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If a bus is traveling at 65 mph, and it’s emitting a wireless internet with a data rate of 9.2kb/sec , does an email get sent faster if the bus accelerates? I am living a high school physics pop quiz question right now, en route from DC to NYC on a bus that offers free [...]

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