Matt Bernier

Often, when people ask me if I need anything my canned response is “A pound of Fifties”. Up until about 10 minutes ago, I never was asked how much money was in a lb of 50s.  Leave it to my boss to ask. So, I quickly did the math. Apparently, a dollar bill weighs 1 gram. (I am going to assume this site is correct, even though it looks less than reputable…it is the internets). Going with this math, I calculated that 1 pound equals about 453.59 grams, approximate to 454 (because this is money I hope to get some day, I rounded up). This means that if you calculate grams times $50, you get $22,700. So, if I ask… » Read More

These are all of the features I would like to see in a single twitter app.  If there is a twitter app that already has all of these features, then tell me, so I can STFU and get my perfect app.  I would love it if this could happen. Twitter Features Following/Unfollowing Allow me to follow or unfollow people from the app. I know the API has this feature. Search Yep, I want to be able to search. Yep, I would like the results to be in a time line like my normal feed Yep, I would like to have multiple searches Nope, you don’t have to keep these running in the background, just run them when I look at… » Read More

My theory is that there is a logarithmic curve of the possibility of originality vs. the total number of ideas.  As the number of ideas progresses, the possibiility of originality goes towards zero.  As technology and science mature, and there are more people on the earth the idea curve moves faster from one idea to another. Sometimes a person is extremely lucky, the stumble upon an idea or a problem and recognize a need without any sort of past struggle with originality.  Typically however, an average idea starts out behind the curve, where originality is negligible.  As a person who generates ideas, an idea person, generates more ideas they learn from their past unoriginal ideas.  They start to pay attention… » Read More