My wife told me to start a blog

My wife told me to start a blog.

I'm not sure what about yet, but I have it on good authority that I happen to rant, about my obsessions, and everything else. A public outlet (and the prospect of fair monetisation) seemed like a good idea. But across an inevitable spectrum of human opinion, it's certain that plenty would disagree. That is, assuming anything written here would ever be read, a self centered conceit.

Enough of that.

My deepest, most searing obsessions:

1. Proteins - I'm a protein scientist by trade. At age 16 I got this idea glued in my head that you could build a CPU out of a protein crystal. One day someone will do this, and make a trillion dollars.

2. Nintendo - At age 6 I played Super Mario Bros. and mashed all the buttons. This has turned into a decades long infatuation with the company's dynamics, and the business shenanigans of the rapidly maturing videogame industry as a microcosm for all corporate psychology.

3 Entropy - At age 20 I failed thermodynamics. My wife assures me that everyone else passed by memorizing Maxwell's relations. I now believe my own inability to compute the fundamental principles is caused by the same complexity in the concepts that makes people so bad at teaching it.

Well, that's post number 1. In 50 years I (or descendants) might read this and be embarrassed. As recompense, one should always end on a strong joke. The secret to good joke telling is...