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Leo the Lion, Ph.D. D plus ten years.
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I don't know.
I've always thought "I don't know" was the beginning of wisdom. Someone famous and insightful is probably quoted as saying as much. But in the current day saying such has become anathema. I understand it and I don't. You see it as much in national conversation (especially nowadays) as you do in everyday conversation. If you think you know something ( Read more... ) -
On the many faces of Twitter.
John Oliver likened Twitter to a cocktail party in his segment about corporations on Twitter. (You can watch it here. I'll wait until you come back. Are you back? Great.) That's a pretty good characterization. It's a large social event where you have brief, usually superficial conversations with people you know at multiple levels of familiarity, ( Read more... ) -
A brief history of my bodybuilding.
Since I ended up with a few new followers on Twitter because of the shout-out from Achilles, I thought I'd write up a brief introduction to me in the context of my bodybuilding ( Read more... ) -
This is where I am.
In the interests of not being such a hermit, a stream-of-consciousness set of updates on where my life is of late, since I've got a little quiet time.
The biggest recent news was buying a house with Isak ( @TheIsakness). We moved in early March. It's about eight miles from my job in unincorporated King County, Washington, but has a Redmond mailing ( Read more... ) -
Red lights are apparently optional.
I should start documenting the crazy driving things I see more often because I'm really curious if some of these are a thing elsewhere in the country. And what I've noticed around here is that red lights are apparently optional ( Read more... ) -
On Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin's repsonse to today's Supreme Court decision.
ICYMI: The Supreme Court declined to hear several appeals on overturned gay marriage bans, including Oklahoma's. Mary Fallin, Oklahoma's governor, released a statement. I'd just like to call out this quote:
Rather than allowing states to make their own policies that reflect the values and views of their residents, federal judges have inserted ( Read more... ) -
On sports omni-fandom.
I've been thinking about what my problem with sports fandom is, and I think I'm zeroing in on it ( Read more... ) -
No, I don't feel old.
I have a t-shirt of Figment from Epcot Center at DisneyWorld which I got in 1995 on a family trip down there. It's loud and brightly colored and awesome. And for being almost twenty years old has held up remarkably well ( Read more... ) -
The car buying experience.
This past weekend I bought a new car. I'd been researching and searching for the last few weeks. A 2014 Honda Accord. What made this difficult is that I wanted a manual transmission. I have decided to call this car "The Unicorn" because finding a manual transmission is about as difficult. But in the spirit of tugrik's recounting of his car-buying ( Read more... )