Thoughts

A collection of 60 posts

Life

Life Lessons

As a child growing up, I used to eavesdrop on my parents conversations. I would walk into the living room, discover that they were in the middle of a discussion, and would quietly and surreptitiously take my seat among them: somewhere where I wouldn't be noticed. It was on one

Thoughts

The Grand Design

Those of you who know me well, know that Damola always has a plan. It is both my greatest strength, and my greatest weakness; because until I devise a plan, I am usually paralysed. So as you can imagine, there is, and has always been a plan for The Red

Celebrations

Fathers From the Outside

As I've grown older, words like "marriage", "husband", and "father", have changed. Like some old friends who I haven't seen in many years, when I see them now, I do a double-take. For they are nothing like I remember. "Marriage, you used to be a featherweight! Have you been working

Healthcare

Reinforcement Learning

In computer science, the term reinforcement learning refers to a sub-study of Artificial Intelligence called machine learning. The subject itself is actually quite broad and deep, and propels you quickly into the world of probabilities, Markov Decision Processes, weights, and rewards. Thus it is certainly not a subject I intend

Thoughts

Immediate Gratification

One of the many things I've come to realise through my experiences here in the U.S, is that many of the problems plaguing Nigeria, and indeed most of the African continent, are not just Nigerian problems or African problems. At their most fundamental level, they are all Black problems.

Relationships

Romantic Love is Selfish

Happy Valentines Day Everyone! It's been a while since I've written a twist, but today is Valentine's day, and I believe it calls for one. As with every Valentine's day, our thoughts drift to either the joy of love, or the solitude of loneliness. This Valentine's dawn has been no

Technology

The World Wide Web

Ever since we acquired the ability to easily and instantly share our lives with others over the Internet, there have been stories of inappropriate and mistaken sharing. From harmless cases like that of Randi Zuckerberg, to those with grevious consequences like that of Denise Helms, the tales abound. There are

Anime

One Piece of Profundity

There are times when you watch a movie, or a show, and you get a really profound message from it. In my case, this happened while I was watching episode 563 of One Piece. To get the full impact, you would have to have been following the entire arc but

Relationships

Sometimes You Can Only Enjoy The Music

I just woke up about 45mins ago (at 2AM) with a Backstreet Boys song in my head. Specifically, this one: So I went on youtube to listen to it... and OH. MY. GAWD! It was like someone was singing my emotions to me... and so I played another one, and

Christianity

Thought Experiment: What Type is God

So here's the little thought experiment I'm having this morning: I wonder what type of personality God has? This, building on the concept of personality types from Type Talk. The idea came about because in the Bible it says that God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow: meaning that

Thoughts

Nature vs. Morality

So I think it's about time I talk about it; the most controversial issue in American society today: Gay rights. 😯 - I can hear the mind gasps already. But before I jump into the main body of the discussion, there are 2 premises that must be established and agreed upon:

Thoughts

The Class Divide

I have never felt as discriminated against as I did today. Today, under the guise of the Drexel Senior Experience, I was invited to a business etiquette dinner. This dinner took place at one of the most exclusive and prestigious city clubs in the Philadelphia area and while I will

Thoughts

The Right Term

It recently occurred to me that there is a term that describes what type of person I am. I often tell people, that I don't really care about the world around me. I'm more interested in the people and activities close to my heart and those people and things that

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KONY 2012

Kony 2012 is the latest thing on the Internet these days. It is a video created by the humanitarian organisation Invisible Children Inc. which aims to make the war criminal Joseph Kony globally infamous this year. I could tell you about the video, OR, you could just take 30 minutes

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Yes vs. No

In an uncanny coincidence, my cousin Peter Oye contacted me the other day looking for ideas to aid his campaign for president of the Afro-Carribean Society (ACS) of Loughborough University. I call it uncanny because as some of you know, I held a similar position at my university for a

Technology

Slim Away

...And here you have it! An exercise-free way to work out your muscles - and proof that not only are people getting fatter, but they must be getting dumber as well. Because if these guys believe that using a stiff material to enforce body shape is a "modern invention", then

Thoughts

Technology Makes Us Stupid & Fat

Some time ago, I was brainstorming with a friend to help her decide on a topic for her English paper, and the topic we came up with was the above. She felt it was too antagonistic and so decided to use milder phrasing: "Technology has done more harm than good"

Technology

21 Gun Salute for Steve

With the death of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc. the world has lost another pioneer. The picture above taken at the white house shortly before his death, shows him and fellow pioneers, raising their glasses to the future of American innovation. A future which unfortunately, Mr. Jobs will never

Thoughts

Why I Blog

Whenever I introduce people to The Red StringTM, the first question they ask is: So what do you write about? A question which for me is pretty hard to sum up in a sentence or two. But I always manage to say something passable (at least I think I do)

Thoughts

Backwards Compatibility

As a "computer person", it is an unspoken rule that I need to be on top of current technological events. Frankly speaking, I am terrible at this. I usually learn the latest news, not from tech news, but from friends in related fields. Granted, this is still in most cases,

Thoughts

High-tech, Shmy-tech

Are you tired of the OS X vs. Windows argument? Or the iPhone vs. Droid? How about the iPad vs. Laptop one? Well, I am. It seems that everywhere on the Internet nowadays if one makes the mistake of comparing two competing technologies it turns into an argument - and

Thoughts

The Under Appreciated Parent

Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm terrible at remembering dates. Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays... you name it. I can not remember a one. That is except my birthday, my brother's birthday (which is almost a perfect inverse of mine), and that of a certain close friend of mine (which is

Thoughts

The Language of Logic

One of the many things that bother me about the field of computer science, is the enigma that surrounds computer programmers. Few people understand who we are, even fewer understand what we do, and practically nobody understands how we do it. The first of these I tackled a while ago,

Technology

Facebook & The Wall

As for the Facebook where I read that article, is it just me, or does it also irritate you when people disable their Facebook walls? I mean seriously, it's a problem. Facebook is all about social networking, and 90% of that networking is done by posting on walls and getting

Thoughts

A Response

This is a response to an article on Facebook that my friend Shope Ogunkeye pointed me to. The original author is unknown, and the original location of the article also is unknown (at least to me). The Facebook version is simply a duplicate by someone else who saw it, was