The Wild West is an ever shifting frontier. It was once a physical space, but then it had to move. In the 90’s, when I was a wee lad, the Wild West was the internet. And let me tell you, it was fucking Wild. And god damn scary. But now that everyone is on the…
Category: I did a thing
The Sisyphean job hunt – Job Websites.
Well, I am looking for a job again. I am still employed, but my job is pretty precarious and I could use a better one. Frankly, that describes my situations since about 2017, and I am starting to realize that I suck at this. But truth be told, I am not sure I want to…
The Great Dating App Purge
The byline of this blog post is as follows. I deleted all my dating apps from my life, and it improved my self esteem immensely. In the summer of 2012 a friend came to visit me. He was a nice guy, but a bit of a busy body, and at some point the conversation turned…
Bad life choices – University
I often ruminate on whether all my ruminating does me any good1 . This rumination brings me back to all my past life event in a pretty haunting way, but it does give me some time to reflect on what specifically went wrong. I largely do this because, as far as I can tell, I am…
Failures in communication – or – On being annoying, part 2
Ages ago I went into an anecdote about being asked to help someone try to get a research grant, and by help I mean do the fucking work. All of it. This is something of a side story, but it has different themes despite tying into some of the same events. When you see a…
Only an idiot would like this post
IMPORTANT NOTICE #2 After about a month of this post still getting likes despite my asking not, I went a head and changed the title so the clapping seals of WordPress go ahead and fuck off. IMPORTANT NOTICE This post is quickly becoming my most popular. Which is heartbreaking, because this was pretty low effort…
[Photo-Dump] Cividale del Friuli
As the quarantine winds down, we can begin to travel again. Cividiale del Friuli is a picturesque town (or a smallish city) in the north-east of Italy.
[Mini Photo-Dump] Opatia, Croatia
I mentioned a few months ago that I did some medical tourism. I had gone to Opatia, Croatia. I took a few pictures while I was there, and I figured I should show them off. There aren’t many.
Memory is shit
This blog is mostly just a place for me to dump my thoughts. If at the same time I can get someone to have a laugh, or share something interesting, all the better. But there isn’t really any desire to do what the kids would call ‘original content’. I am not into that at all….
On being annoying
Currently, I am hustling. I don’t have much secure work to speak of, and I am doing what I can. Part of that entails being flexible to whatever comes along, no matter how much I dislike it. There is a teaching aspect to what i am doing, and for as much as I am not…
Medical tourism! A comparison.
One of my biggest gripes about the United States was the broken medical system. When I was last living there I was perhaps straddling the poverty line too hard, and I found myself entirely without medical insurance. As always, it is exactly when you don’t have a safety net that you realize just how sharp…
I did a tourism! part 5 [photo-dump]
Here are some more pictures from Summer 2020, this time from Thessaloniki. I didn’t get a lot of great shots here, as I spent most of my time walking around nostalgically.
Locus Horribilis 