Attitudes

I read this comment on a YouTube video talking about austerity. The video is actually irrelevant, but the comment really struck me.

“The obvious solution is to stop being poor. Go get a job and make some money. Live below your means so you can save up and become rich! And get an education so [...]

Community

It’s amazing how much of my news I get from Twitter. Part of that is due to the fact that even if news doesn’t actually break on Twitter, it gets there fast and spreads like wildfire. Part of it is the fact that I don’t have cable TV (Thanks, Time Warner, so much…) right now [...]

All new?

I didn’t do a whole heck of a lot with the front end of this site for a long time, letting things just… go.

I updated a lot of things, changed a few around, and generally made the whole thing cleaner-looking. At least I think so.

I also am going to stop limiting just what [...]

An insight?

I had a dream that I believe gives me some insight into our political system.

It started as a basic sci-fi premise that’s been seen many times. A technologically advanced group lands on a planet and observes and/or helps one or more groups on that planet.

I seemed to be in the observational group. The [...]

Music

I remember taking a song I had heard the previous year to my high school choir teacher my sophomore year. He dismissed it as weak. I don’t remember the words, just the attitude. The music itself was too pop-y, and the lyrics were nonsense feel-good junk. Basically, it was characterized as a musical candy bar. [...]

Of Coffee and Tea

I’ve got a fairly wide variety of caffeinated beverages I like. Well, okay, it can basically be narrowed to three. Coffee, tea, and Pepsi. Dr Pepper and Coke will do in a pinch (usually occurring at a burger joint that doesn’t serve Pepsi products or Barq’s root beer).

Ooh. And G33k B33r, but that’s in [...]

Houses

John and I have said for a while now that when we get our vehicle paid off, we want to buy a house. Of course, that got put off when we totalled our car just a few months before we paid it off, back in ’07.

I’ve put some thought into what I want in [...]