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The Fix Is In.
Fixing things is tough. Fixing social things is especially tough. People are dynamical meat systems, and capable of nearly anything. The kinds of social things I’m talking about here are events,...
View ArticleThe “Problem” With Love
The problem with love is this: love is wonderful, beautiful, terrifying, debilitating, painful, glorious, and a joy. The reason that’s such a problem is because people often mistake wonderful things,...
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Interface Clash
gumming up the gears… I have always known that people have interfaces. People have ways in which they model their interaction with the Universe around them. Sometimes it is their language, they way in...
View Article“Creepy, doll.”
I’ve been experimenting with the word “creepy” and what it means.1 My current experiment is that we use “creepy” when we’re afraid to say “predatory.” Maybe it’s because we don’t want to offend...
View ArticlePlan or Perish
I suspect a lot of people would be a lot less outraged if they considered two possibilities Very Seriously before they opened their mouths or acted: Whatever the contest or competition or discussion —...
View ArticleThe opposite of “backward” is “forward.”
I wonder if there’s a certain point in time in our lives when we stop adding new things to our brains. I think about it this way – from the moment we’re born to a certain point, we are constantly...
View ArticleJust a little aside for you entomologists…
They say giant bug movies are unrealistic for reasons of biology and physics. Okay, I’m cool with that. I’ve watched many giant bug movies, including Them, of course, and I’ve been thinking about giant...
View ArticleRead Responsively
Once while reading a book on the way to work, I almost walked into a telephone pole. I don’t know if it was actually a telephone pole, but that’s what we tend to call them. I say almost because, as...
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Fresh Bear Squeezin’s!
Food containers can be so puzzling… For example, honey in plastic bears teaches me that if I turn a bear upside down and squeeze really hard, sweet goo comes out. Because Honey Ants were too hard to...
View ArticleStand up for structure!
One of the hardest writing lessons I ever learned was also one of the most amazing lessons I ever learned, and it was in two parts. The first part was that being a standup comic is hard. Doing improv...
View ArticleWhen a Miracle isn’t Actually a Miracle
I’m going to tell you about a miracle. An ordinary person flips an ordinary coin a hundred times in a row and the coin lands on heads each time. No trick person, no trick coin, no trick situation. One...
View ArticleSecond Guessing — it’s like punching yourself in the face.
The notion that human beings must be of one mind is ridiculous. We are meaty chaotic systems. The fact that we even make decisions indicates that on several levels we compare and contrast different...
View ArticleThe Functional Aspect of Rules
In relationships, I often hear a lot about rules. In particular, I’m talking about multiple adult relationships, but feel free to extract what makes sense for you out of this if this doesn’t apply to...
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“Exactly what kind of team is this, anyway?”
I have a question to ponder for those of the multiple-partner mindset. The short form is this: What will it be with you as a part of it? The long form is this: When you connect yourself to someone and...
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Risky business, raptors…
The local nudist colony is going nuts trying to buy some velociraptor-proof fencing. I’m not sure if I should sell them ordinary cyclone fencing because I’m not sure it’ll stop a raptor attack. Time...
View Article“You say you wanna revolution…?”
I think countries need to compete to see who can be the kindest, smartest, funnest, and most welcoming. Countries who do well are rewarded by tourist dollars. I’m not so sure I can get behind the...
View ArticleThe Links in the Chain
A hypothesis You are receiving a reward to unknowingly do someone else’s dirty work. Assigned homework Postulate possible options for the reward. Postulate possible options for the dirty work. This is...
View ArticlePassing the Torch
Let’s be careful not to proclaim too loudly that this is a society that does not embody social classes and that it operates solely on personal ability without regard to race, sex, and class. The fact...
View ArticleStages via Art
I think technological civilizations start off with three stages. Start off, mind you. The first stage is learning how to draw straight lines. All of of that civilization’s technology is bent toward...
View ArticleNostradamus, my ass!
Predict This! By now, lots of people have heard about how Nostradamus “predicted” the attack on the Twin Towers and as evidence, they offered the following quatrain: In the year of the new century and...
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