A Big Lie

We’ve all heard it. “All you have to do is believe.” “If you believe it, you can do it!” “Anything is possible, if you just believe.” Well this, my friends, is bull crap. Case in point: today I ran a red light.  I believed it was green (I think I got it mixed up with … Read more

Confrontation

In which I challenge a cultural misconception,

Power, Autonomy, and Happiness

Happiness and power

In which I rant about changing how we define happiness

Being Ignorant vs Being Dumb vs Being Stupid

This is, as most of the content on my site, my opinion and how I use words for my own clarification more than anything. I share because a) if you hear me using these terms, it is sometimes helpful to know what I mean by the words I use, and b) I feel like the … Read more

More Plex tips–Ripping TV Shows

In which I leave myself a note on how to rip multi-episode files from a single DVD or Blu-ray disk and pretend like I am doing it for all y’all. 😉

Madness is Not the Dramatic Horror Hollywood Claims

(I started writing this in December 2017 when I first saw the trailer.  The show has come out now, and I hear it’s even worse than I feared.) Saw a trailer this morning about an upcoming TNT crime drama wherein the main ‘detective’ is a 19th century acolyte of the new science of psychology, tracking … Read more