A day later, and it still feels like a dream. For the first time in 44 years, my Purdue Boilermakers are going to the Final Four – the first in my lifetime. I know there is a contingent of “hE’s JuSt tAlL!” idiots out there, but watching Zach Edey and company go to work has… Read More »
I love a good, in-depth bit of research on a fun, esoteric topic. I always look at my wife and say “Titular line!” any time a character says the name of the movie they’re in. Someone did the research to see how common it is, and while movies with names of protagonists as titles do… Read More »
I apparently live two miles east of where the bodies of the four murder victims were found. Weird. Weirder still, a perpetrator might still be alive.
“A revival of the good old future — a belief that progress will take us to a better place. And not just a world of hologram hamburgers. How nice would it be if we could reverse the trend of culture feeling like it’s prepping everybody to expect the worst possible future as an inevitability? Living… Read More »
Created on this day in 1995!
Do you have one? The mental image when you feel content and at peace that might flash in front of your mind’s eye? I imagine myself sitting on the grass hill on the west side of the East Elementary playground, both a small woods and the sun behind my back. It’s sunny. Warm enough to… Read More »
There’s something about really old websites (Web 1.0) that really take me back to the days of dial-up and how the internet seemed so new, and could still be anything. If you want a dose of that nostalgia, wiby.me is a site that searches specifically for Web 1.0 sites, as well as a fun “surprise… Read More »
I want an Apple Fitness Tracker instead. I really, really love the Fitness tracking, closing your rings, the Workouts app, etc. I just don’t use the watch for notifications. And I’d frankly like to use a regular watch – I have several I’ve stopped wearing – and so would love a slimmed down version of… Read More »
Twitter was bought by the villain from Glass Onion and the people I followed are no longer there. Facebook is for grandparents and right-wing echo chambers. LiveJournal – remember LiveJournal?! – was my original fix, before it was purchased by a Russian concern, purportedly to tamp down on dissidents. Reddit is reaching the final stages… Read More »
And some days, your anxiety will look like you making lists of all the things you want to accomplish in a day while simultaneously being paralyzed by the thought of it all.