Ryan James O'Sullivan

I’ve watched this over and over this weekend – Carl Sagan’s Cosmos is one of those shows I pull out every few years to ensure my world view is aligned with the wonder of science and the beauty of the known and potential of the unknown in our world.  I don’t know who put this video together but it is a wonderful thing – if you look through the comments on youTube you’ll see young and old alike who’ve never heard of Carl Sagan, or Richard Feynman clicking through to their interviews and documentaries on youTube.

This is the real power of the information era we find ourselves in – for the first time in world history anyone can go to the library or if they are lucky enough in the comfort of their own home and load up the internet and get free access to lectures and interviews from some of the greatest minds of our time.

The potential to achieve our best as a species is profound and it’s little things like this video that open that door for us – Thanks to the folks at Symphony of Science for putting this together.

If you’ve never seen Cosmos before check it out on youTube:

ryanosullivan.ca has been my primary personal blog now for a year (Oct 25th, 2008 I installed word press on this domain) and it’s been really slow to come in to its own.

For a while I was using a theme that I really loved but it was out of date and wouldn’t work with many of wordpress’s bells and whistles. This limited my ability to add “cool shit” to the site and that hasn’t helped with my lack of inspiration to do much with this blog.

But enough of that – I’ve spent some time today trying to kick this blog back in to gear and if work doesn’t kill me first I’ll be making an effort to post here more often (and on adventuresoftaas.com as well!) – (Editor’s note: look, a blogger saying he’ll post more, how cute).

So welcome to ryanosullivan.ca year 2… I promise this year will be even more interesting then last, and that ain’t saying much…