In high school — a much gentler time — in the sighing hour after school let out, when I was supposed to be walking home to my nervous mother, I would sometimes dawdle around campus, haunting the hallways without need of a hall pass, breathing in the open-air spaces between buildings, poking at the toys …
Category Archives: Philosophy
Pandemic, People, Purity, Paranoia
I think what twists us up the most about COVID-19 is that we have to assume everybody else has COVID-19 until they prove that they have COVID-19. That’s a hyper-paranoid way to walk through life. It really is. It’s like saying, “you have to assume everybody else is the secret police until they prove that …
Warming Trends
Wow, yeah. I was just reading a post from June 1999 where I was bemoaning my newfound gainful unemployment. In it, I had this wonderful gem: I would love to make a career out of my life-long hobby, computer science, and get paid for it. I’d be much happier. There’s a lot to be said …
Speaker
My job at this point of my 47-year game is to get drunk to the point of pointing out bullshit in the world, but not where you’d expect. There are levels beneath the levels, that’s where I’m at. Come at me, bro. Come at me, sis. Come at me, CIS. Whatever. Whatever. It’s 2:10am on …
Under the Hoodie
It’s hoodie weather, everyone! The hoodie is easily my most useful garment (aside from pants). warm dark colors instant cloak obscures my spare tire keeps the cold off my neck secret zip-up bib for slurping noodles sleeves useful for operating public doorknobs kangaroo pockets for carrying tools or hiding hands disguises the fact that I’ve …