| The journey that lead us here started with an idea my oldest friend and I had around May of 2007. I've had an old computer die, ended a relationship, lost friends, gained new ones, and become entrenched in the world's most notorious social group. We've lost two website programmers, and gone through more sketch artists than I care to recall, and had a small series of server issues, but at last on July 31st 2008 I think it's safe to say that Einstein's Dice is officially up and running. I could be pretentious and talk about our dream and our vision, but I think it's the arrogance of that sort of writing that we're hoping to avoid here without falling into the every-day-schmuck level of common blogging, or worse yet, online-journal keeping. We're not below using really big words though. Our goal here is to create a new place for knowledge to collect. We hope to play off of the potential the internet has to really motivate a new intellectual movement. I know that we can't become the starting point, if nothing else: Wikipedia or something as simple as dictionary.com beat us to that, our goal is to post new ideas and have them readily available to the general public in one place that is smoother to surf, and more selective than your average forum or board, but not as restricting to its writers as some of the more respectable online magazines. We already have some highly educated people on our team here, only on the first day, but we also have some people who barely graduated high school. It's my hope that the variety attracts the readership and color that such varying experiences can bring to our entries. Our site's name comes from a statement Albert Einstein had once made about the nature of the universe. Of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principal Einstein said, "The Theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the 'old one'. I, at any rate, am convinced that he does not throw dice." To get the full, bold, grander scale of what this means you can look it up, that's what the internet is for; for us it means that ultimately with enough information you can predict what will happen in the future, be it the future of politics, the future of music, the future of writing, or the future of cocky people who try to predict the future. Our site aspires to be a home for well thought out "what-ifs" or "what should have been" be it by observation, or hopeful prediction; how ever our casts come, if God isn't willing to roll the dice, then we'll be glad to do so for him. |
Sean Torrie |