Title: Founder and Chairman of Microsoft

Commencement Address: Harvard (2007)

Hightlight: “Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.”

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/

Title: CEO of Hewlett-Packard (1999 to 2005)

Commencement Address: California Institute of Technology (2004)

Highlight: “What will define greatness for your generation? I believe it is to use the knowledge that you have earned here to find ways, not only to connect to computers, but to connect people; not only to bridge gaps in science, but to bridge gaps between cultures; not only to use numbers and formulas to create, but to use words to lead, and in the process, to close that canyon between ignorance and understanding.”

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/

OK now that I have a child I remember wondering about things I haven’t thought about in a long time.  My son Tyler likes to draw, well scribble for now, and the other day he was drawing and he pulled out the white crayon.  He scribbled with the white crayon and looked perplexed why it wasn’t producing a color on the paper.  This leads me to ask: why do we have a white crayon in the crayon box of life, does anyone actually use it, and if so for what purpose? According to the Urban Dictionary if someone is a “white crayon” it means they are utterly useless.

In 1903 when the Crayola crayons were first introduced, the white crayon was not one of the first original colors. It was added in 1949 following the aftermath of WWII.  Someone asked what the white crayon is used for on Yahoo Answers (glad I’m not the only one) and below is the community’s best answer: “They are best used for adding glare and highlights to your colored drawings. They provide more depth and interest than just flat color because they make objects have a reflectance value and your drawings will pop.”  OK that sounds nice in theory but common who uses that crayon?

Stay with me, I woke up early and I’m gonna get deep on you.  If something is white it means it is the presence of the combination of all colors in the visible spectrum which is really powerful if you think about it.  I mean if a color has all colors in it, and the result is no color at all, maybe God is trying to tell us something. Maybe our world focuses too much on color and we need to see life like the white crayon (with no color at all).

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OK this one is a must share from the folks over at LaughingSquid.com.  Click the image above or the panoramic virtual tour link below to see a 360 degree view of his arcade room.  You can click around to see all of the games in his collection.

“Pinsane is featuring an amazing panoramic virtual tour of Michael Jackson’s arcade game collection, as well as various Star Wars, comic book and film memorabilia. The items were on display April 19-25, 2009 in Beverly Hills as part of the Julien’s Auctions exhibition of “The Collection of Michael Jackson”.”