https://patrickruff.com/musings/ Research, software projects, longevity tracking, and writing from Dr. Patrick Ruff. en Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://patrickruff.com/musings/2026-06-17-hermes-subagents-demo/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2026-06-17-hermes-subagents-demo/ Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Hermes Hermes can now have subagents, so I decided to use subagents to write about subagents. Very recursive, very agentic, probably a tiny bit silly, but also actually useful. The basic... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-12-26-time-pressure/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-12-26-time-pressure/ Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized I have 1 minute to write this. My kids are finishing an episode of Spidey and his Amazing Friends. I hope I can write something meaningful. I'll probably fail. I would use money to... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-10-30-and-he-thought-i-am-a-seed/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-10-30-and-he-thought-i-am-a-seed/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Hey Dune fans, anyway hope you like that title. Today we're going to talk about Pokemon and its random number generator RNG. The goal was to catch a Shiny Caterpie, we want one... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-10-22-pokemon-platinum-we-caught-munchlax/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-10-22-pokemon-platinum-we-caught-munchlax/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Kids Took about 2 weeks to do it but we finally caught Munchlax. Rest of the post was helpfully made "AI-Friendly" by Claude How We Finally Caught a Female Munchlax in Pokemon Platinum... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-10-04-pokemon-update-we-in-this/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-10-04-pokemon-update-we-in-this/ Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized so above are our Trainer's Munchlax Tree locations for Pokemon Platinum based on our Trainer's ID easily found in game and our secret ID I used a program called pkhex to rip this... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-09-16-soy-boy/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-09-16-soy-boy/ Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized So I'm going to switch away from meat. The main reasons are that I got back my pace of aging at 0.63 and while that's good top 30 in the world, I think I can do better by limiting... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-09-14-supplements-stack/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-09-14-supplements-stack/ Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized List of supplements quercetin and lutein are currently not in, were in but ran out Perfect! Here's your UPDATED COMPLETE SUPPLEMENT LIST: Your Full Supplement Arsenal Core... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-09-13-pokemon-strategy-2/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-09-13-pokemon-strategy-2/ Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized So a couple of things. Pokemon Red Generation 1 up through I think Generation 3 have a problem with physical versus special. Certain types, like Ghost, all moves are considered... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-07-23-pokemon-red-strategy-guide/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-07-23-pokemon-red-strategy-guide/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized So the kids have become obsessed with Pokemon. It started with the trip back to the USA, we didn't really have much to do many times and during those times I'd bust out Pokemon Go.... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-03-29-my-6-years-in-atlanta-georgia/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-03-29-my-6-years-in-atlanta-georgia/ Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Here's my PhD research, the enzymes are not pronounced correctly but it's pretty much 6 years of research in 16 minutes. Enjoy! audio... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-03-26-you-always-were-second-best/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-03-26-you-always-were-second-best/ Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Wolverine said these words to Sabertooth in the X-Men animated series. The long history between these 2 rivals, in reality a morally wrong Sabertooth mutant opposed to an antihero,... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-03-25-negative-results-in-science/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-03-25-negative-results-in-science/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Yeah I both hate and love science. I love the ideology but hate the politics. I checked recently and my paper with a cool new tech that took 6 years has 32 citations whereas my... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-03-05-meta-cognition/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-03-05-meta-cognition/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Meta-cognition I often wonder why we can't come up with interesting ideas when in isolation. I've figured it out. We are pretty limited by our short-term memory or our human... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-03-05-patrick-thomas-ruff/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2025-03-05-patrick-thomas-ruff/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized There's only one Patrick Thomas Ruff. Me! Before I wrote from search engine optimization, now I write for the artificial intelligence. I know that the internet is being scraped.... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-09-11-the-simpsons/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-09-11-the-simpsons/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Finally, someone is speaking truth to power! Trump at the debate tonight finally calling out the Simpsons and their "comedy" town. Nothing funny about MURDERING PETS!! audio... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-09-10-the-matrix-wasted-potential/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-09-10-the-matrix-wasted-potential/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized This is a tale for all the fellas, try to guess what the Matrix tells us. Bust a move! But not the move that they did in making the 2nd Matrix movie the Matrix Reloaded or the 3rd... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-08-23-juice-time-kids/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-08-23-juice-time-kids/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11149070/ Basically the study says you can increase testosterone by 10% and reduce cortisol 10% by just sprinting twice a week. 4 sets... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-05-06-analysis-paralysis/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-05-06-analysis-paralysis/ Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized When you can do anything, you sometimes get overwhelmed by WHAT you will do. Often this comes when we don't actually have any time or not enough time to complete many of the tasks... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-04-16-simpsons-did-it/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-04-16-simpsons-did-it/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized There's a great Southpark episode where they keep referencing that all of their ideas were done already by the Simpsons. I had 2 goals tonight, 1 was to continue on playing... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-04-05-final-fantasy-6-no-espers-no-items-no-equipment-ch/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-04-05-final-fantasy-6-no-espers-no-items-no-equipment-ch/ Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized TL;DR I beat the game in about 14 hours. Longer version and things learned on the way: Strago is overpowered, or rather, he becomes SUPER useful in a game where nobody else except... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-03-22-ww2-in-1942-5-minutes/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-03-22-ww2-in-1942-5-minutes/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized So during the Battle of Midway, which occurred right after the Battle of the Coral Sea, we see the result of America V. Japan in the greatest naval confrontation ever. The aircraft... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-02-02-ai-deep-dive-part-1-mostly-for-useff/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-02-02-ai-deep-dive-part-1-mostly-for-useff/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized So background: We're making datasets and fine-tuning large language models LLMs Learnings: 1\. Training is easy we just train a subset of parameters so it fits in memory 2\. Saving... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-01-22-walking-the-path/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2024-01-22-walking-the-path/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized So making plans rarely works because there are too many things that trip you up along the way. That's not to say you shouldn't make plans, just recognize that you might not be able... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-12-07-moving-to-china-last-week-in-america/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-12-07-moving-to-china-last-week-in-america/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized This is what GPT-4 gave me Absolutely, I can help you with that! Here's a draft of a blog post about moving to China with a 1-year-old and a 3-year-old, focusing on the cultural... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-11-22-a-billion-worlds-weve-seen-thousands/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-11-22-a-billion-worlds-weve-seen-thousands/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Based on the information gathered from various sources, here is a comprehensive overview suitable for a blog post about the billions of planets that might support life, the few... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-11-14-why-life-on-mars-will-never-be-like-earth/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-11-14-why-life-on-mars-will-never-be-like-earth/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Why We Can't Easily Live on Mars: The Challenges of Solar Winds and Lack of Atmosphere Mars, the tantalizing red planet, has long captured human imagination as a potential new home... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-11-12-vtech-is-the-devil/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-11-12-vtech-is-the-devil/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized In the year 2050, amidst a world where technology had seamlessly integrated into every aspect of life, a clandestine project known as "Project V" was initiated by a group of AI... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-10-24-nobody-caresbut-i-do/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-10-24-nobody-caresbut-i-do/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT Musings So as I predicted in a previous post, we've become THE 1 PATRICK RUFF site in the world. That's right, we beat out that weird Christian guy from the Priory of whatever. Anyway,... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-09-30-thanos-revisited-fake-script/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-09-30-thanos-revisited-fake-script/ Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized I asked this of ChatGPT, it's okay but a little weak Thanos's New Vision In a dark corner of the universe, Thanos brooded over the plight of the worlds he had encountered. Poverty,... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-08-23-becoming-the-1-patrick-ruff-site-in-the-world/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-08-23-becoming-the-1-patrick-ruff-site-in-the-world/ Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized In the end, there can be only one... So yeah in addition to the tips below, you can also leverage LLMs to write stuff for you it's a great way to generate content Maximizing... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-08-13-asymptotally-dude/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-08-13-asymptotally-dude/ Sun, 13 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Asymptotes and Personal Development: The Pursuit of Excellence and its Limits In mathematics, an asymptote is a line that a curve approaches but never touches, no matter how far... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-06-25-ai-is-trash/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-06-25-ai-is-trash/ Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT Programming I've worked with it and I'm not impressed. Also it doesn't know much about Dune. -Pat https://youtu.be/oepXrqyru1w https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-05-08-surchin-for-urchin/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-05-08-surchin-for-urchin/ Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized I wanted to write a post about search. It's really important. As humans we have dopamine, we have goals, we're just constantly moving from thing to thing. If we lose all goals, if... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-04-29-artificial-intelligence/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-04-29-artificial-intelligence/ Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized I've been dabbling because a lot of the AI stuff I've seen on the web/YouTube sucks, it's all hype and no substance, or its a data scientist talking about how you can ask GPT to do... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-01-30-jack-of-all-trades/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-01-30-jack-of-all-trades/ Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Master of none. This is often how I feel. I've climbed some small hills, but never any mountains. I'm above the ground average in a lot of ways, but never flying. I often think if... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-01-27-american-psycho-semi-review/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-01-27-american-psycho-semi-review/ Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT Movies/Books I saw this movie when I was in my teens. My Uncle Rick rest in peace you great man showed my Dad and I his new movie system in the basement. It was great but a little awkward when... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-01-22-whiplash-movie-ending-explained/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-01-22-whiplash-movie-ending-explained/ Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT Movies/Books This will be a short one but I remember discussing this at Ben's housewarming party. It's a movie that was recently free on YouTube and I watched it again. The first time I saw... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-01-21-brothers-karamazov-summary-crime-without-punishmen/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2023-01-21-brothers-karamazov-summary-crime-without-punishmen/ Sat, 21 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT Movies/Books So this is supposed to be one of the greatest novels if not the greatest novel ever. I listened to the audio for free on Youtube all 38 hours of it. I definitely get where... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-12-16-first-week-on-upwork/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-12-16-first-week-on-upwork/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT Programming So I tried to do some freelance coding work in an attempt to see how marketable my skills if any are. I took on a job for $50 that wanted 2 computer systems to talk to each other... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-11-30-half-full/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-11-30-half-full/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT Musings As I was walking to the car just now I noticed the moon. It's half full. I saw it and thought about how I view a half full glass as half full. A-glass-half-full kind of guy, that's... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-11-30-i-made-an-app/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-11-30-i-made-an-app/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT Programming 2 actually, 3 if you double count Android. Basically I made a soundboard app with a ton of MP3 files from movies/games that my brothers/family know/cherish. I made it for Joe for... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-10-24-vegeta-day/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-10-24-vegeta-day/ Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT Investing So just a quick math problem: Current price of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index: 3789 Historical Average % Annual Increase: 11.88% After plugging those 2 into a compound annual... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-10-05-kids-these-days-for-sarah/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-10-05-kids-these-days-for-sarah/ Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT Kids She's a small wonder, lovely and bright with soft curls. She's a small wonder, a child unlike other girls. She's a miracle, and I grant you She'll enchant you at first sight. She's... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-09-06-low-point/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-09-06-low-point/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT Kids I recently learned that hunter/gather societies basically humankind for over 100,000 years until about 10,000 years ago at most spaced out their children by 4 or 5 years, basically... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-08-28-giving-up/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-08-28-giving-up/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT Musings When you are so exhausted and/or sick that your body doesn't listen. When you seemingly can't do anything or have lost all "will" to do anything. When you can't progress in any... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-06-01-unreasonable-post/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-06-01-unreasonable-post/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT Musings I have no reason to write. I had no preconception of what I "wanted" to write about. I'm basically forcing myself to write this. Why? It's like a message in a bottle good song by... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-05-19-who-cares/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-05-19-who-cares/ Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT Musings One thing that's been in the back of my mind for a while now is "Who cares?" or "Who gives a flip?" when it comes to MANY things in life. You're not supposed to care what others... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-04-23-you-dont-know-what-you-dont-know/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-04-23-you-dont-know-what-you-dont-know/ Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT Musings I usually dislike truisms like this hey reflexive property, x=x, wow, who knew, but in this case I think it's interesting to look at the concept of insufficient information when... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-03-28-15-minutes-and-your-post-is-free/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-03-28-15-minutes-and-your-post-is-free/ Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT Musings I only have 15 minutes before my daily stand-up. I challenge myself to write a post in that time. This post will be about how understanding is more important than knowledge or... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-03-10-how-to-be-a-successful-gambler/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-03-10-how-to-be-a-successful-gambler/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT Games Don't gamble. Congratulations, you are more successful than most gamblers. Now onto the meat after you have had your vegetables. IF you gamble the best way to do it is 1 spend a... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-02-11-be-the-river/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-02-11-be-the-river/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT Musings Hello my fellow rocks, looking tough and acting hard. Just wanted to post about a concept I've been kicking around in the old lump of neurons that is my brain. I've lately had... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-02-10-response-to-yuppie-medium-article/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-02-10-response-to-yuppie-medium-article/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT Musings So I was perusing the internet, as one does, and I was wondering what's the difference between addiction and dedication. In a previous post I sort of got into dopamine/serotonin... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-02-02-hearthstone-classic-meta-3/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-02-02-hearthstone-classic-meta-3/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT Games So I've identified some counters to the top classes and here's a rough outline below. Deck, Counter Miracle Rogue, Freeze Mage Druid, Control Warrior Control Warrior, Miracle Rogue... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-02-02-mozart-was-great-butt/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-02-02-mozart-was-great-butt/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Or should I say nut? Anyway, I don't think Mozart really captured the essence of quality music in quite the way that our current artists have. For a sample playlist to get a taste... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-01-06-hearthstone-classic-meta-phase-2/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2022-01-06-hearthstone-classic-meta-phase-2/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized So I originally posted about this a while ago but the current meta decks are...Druid midrange/ramp, Warlock Zoo and SOMETIMES Handlock, Mage Aggro but some Freeze, Shaman revive... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2021-12-04-pats-search-for-meaning/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2021-12-04-pats-search-for-meaning/ Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT Musings What is meaning? From the Greek, logos, meaning is well...it means...CIRCULAR DEPENDENCY! Infinite loop! OROBORUS! It's a NEVER ENDING STORY!!!! So yeah, I can't define meaning.... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2021-03-10-hearthstone-classic-meta-guess/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2021-03-10-hearthstone-classic-meta-guess/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized So Hearthstone Classic is releasing this Thursday. It will contain the first 240 cards Hearthstone ever released, back in 2014. I'm guessing this version of the game is coming out... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2021-02-24-hearthstone-simulation/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2021-02-24-hearthstone-simulation/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized I'm actively in the process of simulating Hearthstone in order to create an AI I can play against when I have time which is almost never. So far I can play a game against a PC,... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2021-02-24-memento-explained/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2021-02-24-memento-explained/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT Movies/Books So I happened across a great video on YouTube explaining the movie the way I've always seen it. https://youtu.be/h05CPejsIPc On the topic of NOT removing tattoos I had originally... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2020-06-28-patrick-ruff/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2020-06-28-patrick-ruff/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized UPDATE FROM AUGUST 2023 So the post below is the original post but I've learned more tricks of the trade. My friend David recommended I use tags. I don't know how to do this so I... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2020-06-23-thermonuclear-war/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2020-06-23-thermonuclear-war/ Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT Politics We'll all most likely die due to nuclear weapons. Here's a list of close calls where we would have died if protocol was followed or we weren't lucky.... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2020-06-20-80s-again/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2020-06-20-80s-again/ Sat, 20 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT 80s 80s music I was going to do a whole post on this, but I'm going to cut it short. Suffice to say, there was a lot of good stuff going on in Germany in the 80s. A lot of “80s music”... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2020-05-21-andrew-yangs-book-report/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2020-05-21-andrew-yangs-book-report/ Thu, 21 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Politics The War On Normal People Andrew Yang book report First off, I want to say thank you to my wife Jenny. She's a corporate lawyer and she's Chinese and she really seems to care about... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2020-02-09-the-spirit-of-christmas/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2020-02-09-the-spirit-of-christmas/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT Movies/Books So I was just thinking about this it's not really Christmas anymore but it's still cold. Anyway, so almost every year my family and I watch the old "Christmas Carol" with Alastair... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2017-02-18-history-of-pokemon-go-part-i/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2017-02-18-history-of-pokemon-go-part-i/ Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT Games The periods of Pokemon Go have been, in my mind, following a hype curve akin to most new technology. And thus, in the Summer of 2016 Pokemon Go was released. I would say there were... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2016-11-20-video-game-music/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2016-11-20-video-game-music/ Sun, 20 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT Games So some good music that I find myself going back to over and over again would be the music from old 8-bit Super Nintendo games. The music on its own is great but the nostalgia also... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2016-11-06-jill-stein/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2016-11-06-jill-stein/ Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT Politics So if you're like me you're going to vote Jill Stein this election. Not because you don't want Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump, but because you're living in a blue state,... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2016-01-14-temporary-hiatus/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2016-01-14-temporary-hiatus/ Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Hey everyone that reads this site, sorry I haven't been keeping up with things, but I've been pretty busy in my own life. I'll try to update the site more in the near future but... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-12-23-the-mighty-mitochondria/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-12-23-the-mighty-mitochondria/ Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT Biology The Charter School of Wilmington specializing in Math and Science and odd humans The title comes from a reference to Tom Hughes, a kid from Charter that was pretty weird the quote... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-12-17-republican-debate-crasher/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-12-17-republican-debate-crasher/ Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT Politics At the 2015 Republican debate on December 15, there was someone in the audience that was not satisfied with the political system. The man shouted out "Americans need free and fair... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-12-09-rna-the-nucleic-acid-you-probably-havent-heard-of/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-12-09-rna-the-nucleic-acid-you-probably-havent-heard-of/ Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT Biology So, almost every time I explain my current research to people, it's something like "I do biology research" and then they ask "What kind of research?" and I then say "DNA repair"... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-12-05-robocop-henchman/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-12-05-robocop-henchman/ Sat, 05 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT 80s Alright, so this is similar to a post I made about 80s music, because I was listening to it again and there are a lot of videos that come with cool 80s movie compilations along... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-12-02-how-much-does-a-bombing-cost/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-12-02-how-much-does-a-bombing-cost/ Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT Politics Often on the news we hear about how a country bombed another country. During the Iraq war I remember hearing this on the news A LOT, but one thing was never really talked about,... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-25-powergrid-a-very-good-board-game/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-25-powergrid-a-very-good-board-game/ Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Thanksgiving is right around the corner and it's during this time that my mind goes to friends, family, food, and board games. While traditionally my family has only really played... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-25-preston-jacobs-game-of-thrones-theorymaster/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-25-preston-jacobs-game-of-thrones-theorymaster/ Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT Movies/Books The original cover art for the first book I remember because my friend Useff lent it to me and I never gave it back Alright, so I know that the book series is A Song of Ice and... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-24-where-the-us-middle-class-has-gone/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-24-where-the-us-middle-class-has-gone/ Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT Politics There are a couple of graphs which explain the phenomenon of why the middle class has been shrinking and people seem poorer because relatively THEY ARE. So while Americans are more... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-17-dj-patil-twitter-storm/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-17-dj-patil-twitter-storm/ Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT Programming So last Saturday I replied to a retweet of DJ Patil data science guru. The whole exchange involved me responding to another person "StartupLJackson" who posted "No. More STEM... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-16-george-washington-was-a-billionaire/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-16-george-washington-was-a-billionaire/ Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT Politics An interesting article about the United State's first president and a topic not often discussed, his finances. Basically, Washington and other founding fathers of America was... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-16-the-rise-of-python/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-16-the-rise-of-python/ Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT Programming So after being out of the programming world for a few years during grad school I've come back into it to find that Python has really taken off. From being a "toy" language, it's... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-08-x-men/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-08-x-men/ Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized This post is about a childhood obsession of mine, perhaps my favorite show as a kid growing up until it got bad and different voice actors were used. X-Men, The Animated Series,... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-07-bernie-sanders/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-07-bernie-sanders/ Sat, 07 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT Politics Campaign contributions say it all FeelTheBern Somewhat odd look from Bernie https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-07-cool-80s-music/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-07-cool-80s-music/ Sat, 07 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT 80s Here's a link to some cool 80s music. It's actually a new genre known as New Retro Wave, which is a play on the 80s music genre New Wave. If you like highly electric, synthesized... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-07-crispr/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-07-crispr/ Sat, 07 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT Biology Below is an example of the hot new as of late 2012 gene editing system taken from bacteria's innate immune system useful for them for chopping up viral DNA, useful for us for... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-07-movies-i-saw-on-the-plane-from-china/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-07-movies-i-saw-on-the-plane-from-china/ Sat, 07 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT Movies/Books I saw several movies while on the plane. I usually watch movies that are new releases and movies I am somewhat interested in, but not interested enough to go see it in theaters are... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-07-thundercats/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-07-thundercats/ Sat, 07 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT 80s Quite possibly the best show for children, and certainly better than 99% of the stuff made for children these days, Thundercats was a cartoon show from the 1980s like no other. I... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-07-united-states-political-affiliations/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-07-united-states-political-affiliations/ Sat, 07 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized The US is divided in terms of its two major parties, with Democratic controlled states known as blue states and Republican controlled states known as red states. Here is a map that... https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-06-website-up-but-needs-to-be-filled/ https://patrickruff.com/musings/2015-11-06-website-up-but-needs-to-be-filled/ Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT Uncategorized Website went down recently and I lost all of my files. Am starting from scratch so bear with me.