“Good evening. I’m Ewan McGreggor, and if I didn’t have a Scottish accent I’d be helping you find the correct furnace filter at Home Depot right now.” “I’d like to welcome all… I mean both of you to the first annual Quality of Life Awards. Tonight we’ll be celebrating achievements in engineering, software development, and […]

Amazon sells the Kindle Fire tablets below their manufacturing cost. Loss leaders. They are doing whatever they can do to get you in the cult. More power to ’em, I guess. I’m not a fan of all their business practices, but they are 7% less evil than eBay, so… I go to Amazon first these […]

Circa 1993. Recently divorced. I’d just been dumped by my manic pixie dream girlfriend after six months. Strangely, I had loved that MPD girlfriend exponentially more than I had loved my first ersatz wife. That girlfriend was the girlfriend I was supposed to have when I was sixteen and that breakup was the breakup I […]

Stop people. Stop it. Get the hook out if your lip. Start calling out bullshit as bullshit. “Narratives” in Lieu of Facts GAH!  I get so frustrated with “narrative” replacing facts in our culture. The divorce rate in the U.S. is 50%. No. No it’s not. It’s 27%. It was highest in the 1970s, but […]

I’m alive. I’m in a bad place. Worried about home/marriage issues. My dad is under the knife in a VA hospital. My house is in total disarray as our exterior remodeling project just keeps stretching out. My son is moving to a marginally better neighborhood after getting robbed. And this happened. Keep in mind, I […]