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Today I did nothing special but it killed a lot more time than I planned. You’ve been there too, no? At issue: the shop is hopelessly wrecked. Winter is coming. Time to get my head out of my ass and … Continue reading →

This post is an open invitation for anyone who wants to offer advice, ideas, suggestions, etc… Y’all are smart cookies. Please help brainstorm my idea. I’m open to creative solutions… fill my comments with wisdom! My laptop runs fine. It’ll … Continue reading →

Hat tip to Ace of Spades.

Today’s post has three points: We are currently so regulated that cool shit is lost, forgotten, or never invented. “Never invented” worries me; how can we know what we didn’t discover? Nobody learned a fucking thing in high school chemistry. … Continue reading →

Change is simply a fact. It’s neither good nor bad. I don’t fear change. If change is good, I enjoy it. If it’s bad, I adapt as much as possible. I don’t let it ruin my attitude; why would I? … Continue reading →

“True, social media is impressive. The internet gives us instant access to global knowledge. We are a more tolerant society, at least in theory. But Facebook is not the Hoover Dam, and Twitter is not the Panama Canal.” Read it … Continue reading →

There are occasional bits of knowledge that I want to preserve, as much for myself as for the blog. Cramming them in the sidebars was getting unwieldy so I created a new page; Quotes & Poems. It is there that … Continue reading →

I have changed my tagline. It was this: “If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.“ It’s a wise thought by Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus. He wrote it sometime in the first or … Continue reading →

[nerd] Several days ago I switched from http:// to https://. This is supposed to keep monsters at bay. Ideally you didn’t even notice? If it’s an issue, someone tell me. Also, I put up a privacy policy because someone said … Continue reading →

I’m glad this movie is on its way. Ever since Gran Torino I’ve known Clint Eastwood is the go to guy for a real movie. He makes movies that are more. They’re better. Whatever Hollywood might have been (if anything), … Continue reading →