Every day now I get several phone calls from this same 866 exchange. If I answer a moment will pass in silence, and then a shitty text-to-speech engine will tell me that it is “Vision!” calling. Sometimes it will say it’s calling for “Shane Robershin.” All standard so far. But instead of then connecting me [...]
It’s disturbing and interesting to listen to conversations like this one on piracy and realize what a, well, business it is: How much does it cost to outfit a pirate mission? A single mission with 12 armed men and boats costs a little over $30,000. But a successful investor has to dispatch at least three [...]
I just barely did not send this email to Indiana University, where I need to apply for a guest account. Maybe, just maybe, the random tech idiot who I pissed off would decide to make my life difficult. So instead I post it here, where it still might make my life difficult, but where the [...]
I was looking around my Google Analytics account to see what were the top search terms that brought visitors to this site. Most of them are pretty boring or obvious, but there are two true gems: At #5: Brett Howe At #8: “look here, dipshit” I love that LSH is the third from the top [...]
It’s pissing rain this morning, so though I have in the last ten days given up caffeine, the coffee shop calls to me as a waypoint that might eliminate further soaking. One block from the coffee shop lurks what once was the second-best used bookstore I had ever known, The Book House. I say “once [...]
So I’m doing a bunch of exercises for personal growth, which obviously I need in spades. And one of them is pretty interesting but I can’t do it myself. I’m looking for some brave souls to tell me a) what you think my strengths and weaknesses are, and b) where you think I’ll be in [...]
from this week’s multi-university project meeting: do not describe someone’s life work as “gobbledygook” when they are sitting across across from you.
Bailing out the financial class of Wall Street with working-class taxpayer dollars fills republicans and conservatives with a white-hot populist rage, but they are equally incensed by a 5.4% tax increase on the top one percent of income earners so that the working class taxpayers need not be bankrupted by rising health care costs? I [...]
Much as there is an eternal battle between good and evil being waged in the former-DDB’s soul, a similar battle between the pro- and anti-regulation sorts has been waged in argumentation for years. The pro- side are generally reasonable people, who at the increasingly radical fringes become militant treehuggers, meat-is-gender-politics people, and crusaders for Political [...]
The other day at the redoubtable Snap Fitness I overheard a conversation the likes of which I’d overheard many times before. It went something like this: x: If I want to talk to somebody, I just call them. y: I know. x: And most of the stuff people are texting, it’s just stupid. “I’m going [...]