People believe they are right about the things they believe they are right about. When I mention this phenomenon the reply is usually, "Don't you?" My answer is often viewed with suspicion, because no, I do not. My beliefs are quite malleable, being based upon current information and understanding - two things I acknowledge can change. To me ( Read more... )

I've been on this path lately of nuking paradigms as I come across them - and not just the easy ones. The hard ones. The ones no one questions because they either have to look too deeply into themselves, or they don't care to. But the whole passivity of waiting for something new to come along to challenge has really been dragging me down. I've ( Read more... )

During our Wild Damn Texan heyday drax0r and I were returning to the office from a rare offsite break where we entered our two-story office building's elevator. Just before the door closed, the only other person we'd ever seen in the building entered the car. drax0r pushed the button to the second floor ( Read more... )

Wizard101 has probably been the most expensive free game I've ever played. Unless you count the individual copies of Starcraft II we collectively purchased when it was released. I understand companies not wanting someone to pirate their software, but its difficult to explain to a 10-year old that for LAN-disabled play, Blizzard required us to ( Read more... )

Two days ago, it was 75-degrees and sunny. That night, it dropped to 38. And last night? Ice! Out of the hundreds of cities which make up the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, our little town made the news last night as the hardest hit location. My father called to warn me. Then, this morning:

Anna Independent School District has issued a 2-hour ( Read more... )