Who wants to go back to their girlfriend at home? All of us nodded. Someone in the group mumbled something about relaxing on his soft couch in front of the TV. The corporal held a hand grenade on display for…
There’s Peggy Olsen, portrayed by Elisabeth Moss, up front and centre in a still from TV’s Mad Men. Were you one of the actors in the background, one of the uncredited workers who helped make everything seem more realistic? If…
Absolutes, preached as gospel, still pushes my buttons. Unhealthy language easily spills over into other parts of our lives if left unchecked. A review of Julian Lennon’s debut album, Valotte sparked these thoughts. First, let’s roll with an contextual…
Your first day after the festive parenthesis. Are you ready for it? How stoked or miserable are you today, maybe heading back to work? It might feel exciting, like new doors opening and all that good stuff. Or maybe you’re…
I stumbled across this old pic where uhm… Ok, I can’t remember what we were doing, or why. But I’m sure the language, instructing us what to do, was clear, even if our execution wasn’t. I just don’t know why…
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to copy code, and make it work, Soldier! Just before 2025 got kicked to the kerb by our perception of dates and calendars, I concocted a Yin-Yang Spinner. A simple HTML…
For Navigation Clarity makes the terrain readable, but doesn’t modify it. See the path. The ugly, beautiful, difficult, and frightening parts of the path become yours, when you choose to walk there, or have to. Either way, see it for…
Last essay for 2025…. For some, the Yin-Yang symbol is a cool pendant. A tidy depiction of binary opposites: darkness and light. But hang on, pilgrim. Is it? People say we should chase away the darkness with light.But what is…
Disconnection is the big one. The central fracture that creates more misery in the mind than almost anything else in this messy thing called human relationships. It is difficult as hell to understand what people want. That difficulty alone generates…
An exploration of the churn effect, how online and offline discussion creates motion without action, and why real change requires landing ideas. Threads explode. Names get mentioned. People defend cyberbullying. Others recount past experiences in painful detail. The outrage…