Constant existential nagging. Feeling it pretty bad lately. The stable half that pushes for self-sufficiency Is in a lockstep battle with The unstable half that pushes for self-agency. I don’t think I’ll ever be fully settled in my life, One of those lives lived in A permanent state of temporality. I think it’s a side …
Author Archives: Shawn
Rover Teeth
Getting bored more and more easily. Antsy, even. My acquaintances are, for the most part, not interested in me enough to pull me out of my doldrums; just sitting within earshot of them while I stare at my phone is perhaps the most painful way to spend my time. So I typically do the Irish …
Backstop
I’ve heard of it being done, but I kinda secretly want to wire my radio and my antenna tuner to a softball backstop fence to see what kind of signal I can get out. I have no idea if I can match the impedance of a backstop, or if I will be able to deal …
In Praise of the Holy Algorithm
It seems that I am, that we are, irredeemably under the thumb of the Facebook algorithm as far as getting any messages out. A week ago, I was having a particularly bad night, emotionally, and I posted a short message that could have been construed as a cry for help. What I got was absolutely …
We All, Absentee Consumers
How do so many tenants of dead malls stay alive, and why are so many videos of dead malls so interesting? Why do I keep watching? Why is so much of a physical place’s legitimacy so pinned to what we all agree about it? Why is it that one minor opinion of it can cause …