Sometimes, I think social media is a global psy-op to make me feel terror and fear of the future in order to short circuit my executive functions and buy things to temporarily alleviate the horrors. I mean, sure, I want to be informed on what’s happening at the moment so I can try to have …
Category Archives: Philosophy
F.U.M.
In Neal Stephenson’s epic sci-fi novel “Cryptonomicon”, we read of a character in one of the modern timelines who is a techie and a new business owner. This guy has a running gag where he has an app he wrote that sits in his PC’s toolbar that checks his bank accounts and his investments and …
Der Dummkopf – The Fool
This first week of German class has not gone easily. I’ve never done distance learning, so I’m climbing uphill to figure out these learning management systems. The first assignment found me misreading the actual task, and I kept getting the answers wrong; I got distracted with learning the laptop’s Alt-Gr keys (so I can do …
Pluck
If a vengeful God exists, then he will take my eyesight first. Only he and I will know why.
Twelfth
On December 11, I hung my xmas lights in the front window of my apartment to mark the beginning of about as much festivity as I care to muster. It’s just a single strand of C7 style LED bulbs on a timer that runs from 5pm to 1am. They even mount on the clips I …