I am not a morning person, so I always look forward to the Fall time change and dread the Spring one ( Read more... )

Is it my imagination, or are people becoming worse drivers? I don't think it's just watching lots of Reels of dashcam video of people doing stupid things and causing wrecks, because I've been cut off and passed on the right multiple times, often right at the corner south of our house ( Read more... )

Why is it that, the more you need to get done, the more other people keep piling more to-do's on you ( Read more... )

Here's another interesting discussion panel topic from Tampa Bay Comic ConMy response is predicated on parsing the title as a portmaneau of "cosplay" and "parenting," and draws upon the discussion of people feeling as if they're just LARPing their way through life ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting panel at Tampa Bay Comic ConWhen we think of cosplay, we tend to think in terms of "adults playing make-believe," or of the people who go to extraordinary lengths to recreate the costume of a well-known character, and relish the challenge of realizing in the physical world "clothes made out of pure Awesome" from an anime or ( Read more... )

Recently the subject of Julian Jaynes and his seminal book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind came up. I had read and reviewed it a few years back, and I thought I'd posted my review of it on this blog. But when I went to link it, I discovered that I'd never posted it -- and I couldn't find any way to link to the ( Read more... )

The long-awaited game Space Citizen is still in development, and they've already had to kick 600 cheaters off its system. These players discovered a flaw in the programming that allowed them to sell cargo twice ( Read more... )

Most of us are familiar with the perils of procrastination. Whether we've missed deadlines, lost out on opportunities, or just had to pull a frantic all-nighter or two, we know the consequences of putting off a large or unpleasant task.

But what about precrastination? Isn't it a good thing to get a good early start on a major project ( Read more... )

There's something about the scent of freshly-turned soil that activates a primal part of the brain. I remember how I got back to gardening in the turmoil of 2020, and was surprised at how that tiny plot brought back intense memories of my childhood on the farm, where we had a huge garden.

It turns out that gardening really does have therapeutic ( Read more... )

As I was reflecting on how deeply the notion of quintessence runs in the human mind, to the point where people will use the language of population thinking when they're actually thinking in terms of quintessence, I realized just how much horror literature has at its heart the idea of one's human quintessence being lost, such that the character then ( Read more... )