I would like to spend some time expounding on an opinion I have held for many years. I have held this opinion probably since high school, and I have become increasingly convinced that it is true. The opinion is pretty simple: The whole notion of plot twists has made media much more poor, and the…

I didn’t have a good birthday this yea. These things happen, and I am not gonna let it get me down too much. If things go well for me, I will have a total of about 80 of them. The first five won’t be remembered, and the last ten may not be worth much of…

Right, so the previous posts in this series (one, two, and three) were kinda depressing. Good news! This one isn’t. How about that? I had started the previous posts with a template about: “Busy > Bored” as a personal motto of mine which I have held to for years. I’d like to say that is…

Hello! This post is being published on the 12th of May, which is three days before my birthday. For years, I have had the habit of going out of town for my birthday. The ‘where’ doesn’t really matter. What is important is that I go, and that I try my best to have some damn…

They say you never forget your first. With romance, that is not the case. I have no idea who the first person I ever kissed was. In my defense, I was pretty shitfaced at the time. That’s pretty much how it went for many of my firsts. So yea, long forgotten. I make up for…

The 80’s had a clear aesthetic. I can’t imagine that the people living at that time were thinking to themselves at that time “my god, we are so corny right now!”, but that is how many people feel about it retrospectively. I find all this fascinating. The stuff we find great now will look awful…

In these times of recession and crisis, economics is getting a bad rap. Well, it has for some time in some of the circles I find myself in. Left leaning people of a conspiratorial nature tend to see economics and economists as some kind of cabal out to worsen the life of the every day…

(Hello! Did you know that this post is part of a series, and you can find the other bits of it here and here? Now you do! Generally, I like to keep busy. I have kept: “Busy > Bored” as a personal motto for years. That being said, it is not easy to do. Nor…

As my adventures in management continue, more and more questions seem to pop into my head. Many of these questions are of the imposter syndrome variety: when are they going to figure out my incompetence? When am I going to get shitcanned? How has this thing that has happened going to piss off my boss….

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an optimistic little piece about how things seemed to be looking up with my life, particularly when I compared it to how things were back in China, and how things ultimately shook out. Whelp, I spoke to soon. Just as soon as I published that, my boss changed…

Over the course of my life I have had many run-ins with the a force of absolute destructive potential energy. I am referring to the workplace ATF. The workplace ATF is never there by surprise, but somehow you always find yourself surprised by them. It is always one of those things that, at least in…