Dear Diary: I feel like I should be angrier than I am, but all I feel is mute resignation. The major hailstorm tonight found my car in good condition. It is no longer in good condition. Judging from the three holes in the tempered glass, and the four dents on the trunk lid, the hailstone …
Author Archives: Shawn
Makes Waves
Unlike the rest of you sorry lot, I can make perfectly sinusoidal lines of #mustard on my #hotdogs. I just choose not to, so nobody feels sad.
Snoop de Whoop
In a recent blog post I bemoaned how Duolingo’s streak gaming system has become something of a death march, how it’s an unavoidable slog, and how eventually I’ll be jumping off that treadmill so I can enjoy life and enjoy learning German instead of breathlessly trying to rip out a 3 minute lesson before midnight …
Ephesus
In school, the prof teaching my “Intro to the C Language” course, Dr. H, really took the “Baptist” part of OBU to heart. The final project was that he would hand us a text file, a book from the New Testament, and we were to write a C program to generate a concordance (an index) …
Let Fly
I’m not saying I’m a naturist or a nudist or anything, but god damn that’s comfortable.