The Happy Moron

Given that I’m fresh out of real content, I’ve done some house-keeping instead.
Behold the Mostly Fairy Tales page… an index of all the Monday fairytales, without the annoying Part I – Part II – Part III baloney. As full blown pages on the site, each gets its own permanent link and is easily findable in [...]

Why am I not listening to more quality violin music?
It’s really not that hard.

I’m trying out a little game I thought up. The game is to retell a fairy tale or children’s story while omitting one of the major characters.
This is Hansel and Gretel, and we’ve lost Hansel… just not in the woods. This is Part III;  Part I. Part II. Part IV.

This was the beginning of a [...]

Posting has been sparse this week. I’ve chewed through my entire backlog of postable drafts and so I’m left scrambling.
I did run across this story on obesity though.
The findings appear to be fresh evidence of a phenomenon that health professionals have long suspected: as those around us get fatter, our perceptions of our own size [...]

Why did no one ever tell me about this stuff?

I’m trying out a little game I thought up. The game is to retell a fairy tale or children’s story while omitting one of the major characters.
This is Hansel and Gretel, and we’ve lost Hansel… just not in the woods. This is Part II. Part I. Part III. Part IV.
Little Gretel was exhausted. After a [...]

We all make them. We can’t not make them. They’re how we make sense of the complexity of the world; how we understand what’s going on around us.
So when I saw this dude the other day, I immediately knew that he was going to kill me.
His attitude, his clothing, his swagger… They all told me [...]

Because it highlights real world evil.
I guess I chose to post this one because it’s a system evil. More particularly, it’s a system evil which abuses the poor because the poor are easiest to abuse.
In computer software, it’s a recognized fact that unless quality is explicitly designed and maintained, it won’t just evolve. You have [...]

Online communication can be tricky. I think one of the reasons that it’s tricky is that the tools are so crude.
Think Twitter. A single tweet could be personal communication between two close friends. It could be a message between colleagues. It could be a broadcast from a famous person to a million people.
The same device [...]

A truly palpable hit.