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Basement Isolation in the Age of COVID

COVID rules the world. I went into a group of people, and then I spent two weeks in my basement. It wasn’t bad, but it sure was surreal.

October 1, 2020
Apple Watch: In Memoriam

This week, I said goodbye to a friend, my OG Apple watch, and now I grapple with what life looks like in a post-Apple Watch world.

September 14, 2020
Quarantine Tales: The Mountain Man – Part 1

The world has changed. People have changed. These are the (fictional) tales that escaped.

August 18, 2020
The Mosquito Situation

Filthy bloodsuckers, mosquitoes are the bane of my existence. Where the little monsters gave me a peaceful, undisturbed May, June, and most of July, they made up for their early shyness with a vicious assault over the last two weeks on any bared skin.

August 12, 2020
The Vocal Volume Conundrum

Folks, we have a problem. My girlfriend says I am too loud when I play video games. I know, that is absolutely ridiculous. Let me break it down and show why she is unequivocally incorrect.

August 9, 2020
Saturday Morning Cinema: Forrest Gump

I will embrace the cliché and open with the line, “Mama always said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.’” It is one of the truest, most applicable movie lines I have heard during my lifetime. This makes sense, then, that such a line comes from a…

August 4, 2020
Saturday Morning Cinema: All the President’s Men

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put President Nixon back together again.

July 29, 2020
Saturday Morning Cinema: Modern Times

Man creates machine. Man becomes machine. Machine takes over the world. Charlie Chaplin also made a really good movie about trying to make it in the world.

July 21, 2020
Saturday Morning Cinema: The Wild Bunch

The “Wild West” of American history had to expire at some point. Territorial expansion and growth of government authority, coupled with advancing technology, rang the death knell for an era of lawlessness and frontierism. The Wild Bunch focuses on a point during that time where the United States was still establishing its southern and western…

July 12, 2020
Big Spoon, Little Spoon, That Other Spoon

My girlfriend and I have three sizes of the same type of spoon, so where did this guy come from?

July 8, 2020

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