It’s about time I post an update on my 2020 goals. MAGFest was cool. Disney World was pretty cool as usual. I haven’t been updating this site as much as I think I should, but I figure a little is better than none. I haven’t been super diligent with my diet and exercise for a …
Are you socially awkward, or just “spiritually Finnish?” If you find it awkward to make small talk, you may be “jingfen” (精芬) or “spiritually Finnish.” That’s the newly coined Chinese buzzword for a burgeoning identity taking hold among [Chinese] millennials… In Finland, even the extroverts are introverts, or so claim the Finns. They have a …
Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in …
We judge everyone else in the world by their actions, and only ourselves by our intentions. Fix that in yourself. nono_baddog’s dad
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men, 2005
It’s a new year and a new decade*. Honestly, 2019 has felt like the longest year of my entire life. Everyone says as you get older the years start to fly by, and it’s generally been true for me any other year. I blow my own mind thinking back to events that happened less than …