Not puck, not duck, not muck, not suck. That’s a pet peeve of mine: People who have been successful and don’t realize they’ve been lucky. That God may have blessed them; it wasn’t nothing you did. So don’t have an attitude. No Mr. President, my success is not luck. Its…
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This is at least a couple of weeks old. My dogs were dragging. Needed a boost. Not the the teeth rotting meth type of injection, but something chemical none-the-less. Swung into the Sinclair by the house. A couple 5-hour energy mini’s and a rock star should do the trick. The…
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Part I – Driving I recently provoked an argument with my wife over how long it took her to start accelerating after the light turned green. That morning she was averaging a 5-count. In her defense she was not in her phone, she was just tired after a late night…
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“Politics is mostly incentives + tribalism + confirmation bias. Not much different than sports or religion.Difference between sports and national politics – sports fans are under no delusion that they are rational or that they can change the outcome.” -Naval Ravikant “If you received a like, or notification, or message…
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What if, and I realize its a big if. This IF so fucking huge, it’d make the Israeli / Muslim conflict look like a lame ass popularity contest, it’d make everyone realize how irrelevant pop culture retards are, well, retarded and insignificant. It would make everyone see the corruption in…
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I used to work with a uniquely naive “gentleman” who was incessantly lied to by his “idol” over the most trivial of statements. If Idol brought food in, he’d make the claim it was fat free, or low calorie without a hint of question. During our annual salsa pot-lucks, he’d…
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When shocks and struts start to fail, a simple bump turns into a dangerously creepy water bed on wheels of motion causing back and forth rolling through the peaks and valleys of the pocked marked highway. With trepidation, anxiety and little bit of excitement I watched in earnest as the…
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“Looked dead, didn’t I? But I wasn’t. But it wasn’t from lack of trying, I can tell you that. Actually, Bill’s last bullet put me in a coma. A coma I was to lie in for four years. When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements refer…
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Carpentry is. Recovering easier. Trying to decide what kind of shark/fish the ice resembles in my pain killer, taxing.