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When I first started going to clubs to pick up girls, my guy friends quickly suggested I get contact lenses. Suggested? More like, twisted my arm and wouldn’t let me say no– after all, what are friends for? I would be the first person in my family to get contact lenses. I guess that sounds [...]

For Spring break, my girlfriend and I flew to the nation’s capitol, Washington D.C., and spent five nights. It was incredible. Booking our tickets a few weeks ago, we had no idea it would be such a historic week on Capitol Hill. I’ll have to send house speaker Nancy Pelosi a thank-you note for putting [...]

So I finally did it. I started a webcomic. This is something I’ve been thinking about doing for literally years. I decided, there’s no time like the present. At best I only have eighty more years or so to crank out content, so it’s time to get off my butt and produce! I give you, [...]

In no particular order… 1. Having a great dream, and remembering it vividly after waking up. 2. Sharing a smile with a cute stranger. 3. Getting invited to a party. 4. Making new friends and hanging out with old ones. 5. Publishing a great article. 6. Solving a tough math exercise I’ve been stuck on. [...]

I think Glowing Face Man has long been due for a renaming; when I started the blog years ago, I had no idea how many articles I’d end up writing here, or how popular the blog would be. The new domain name is shorter, easier to remember, and a lot less likely to get mistaken [...]

Xamuel.com now has forums You can check them out here. It took a lot of work and I’m not even half finished yet. There are still a ton more features to add. One of the main reasons for going to forums was, I was never quite satisfied with how blog comments work. They work alright [...]

Hello I am launching a free newsletter, in which I’ll publish some exclusive content once every month or two. I decided to do this as a way to reward my long-term readers, giving them an “inside scoop” beyond what the general public has access to, as well as providing a way for me to better [...]

I began programming when I was about nine years old, using GW-BASIC, an ancient dialect of BASIC which came with early versions of MS-DOS. One evening, my family, having never owned a computer before, found a TANDY 1000 by the dumpsters at UCSD student housing. We hauled the mystical device into our living room and [...]

I got my BS in mathematics from the University of Arizona, in the beautiful city of Tucson. I didn’t always think education was important, in fact when I grew up, I joined the military instead of going directly to school. I thought that a degree was just a piece of paper. Then in the Air [...]

When I was seventeen, I signed up for the U.S. Air Force. Actually, I talked to the army recruiters first. I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but I knew I needed to fly out of the nest, and I wasn’t into university back then. When I walked into my [...]