The Happy Moron

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 I. Part II. Part III. Part IV.
This is the story of Gretel. [...]

Here’s an interesting example of a specific group of people targeting a specific thing.
If you want to find a group of people to perform a narrow activity – you can. If you want to organize a niche thing – you can. Before the internet came along, costs of finding people were prohibitively expensive.
Now one person [...]

With a name like shorpy you know it’s got to be good.

Kind of a disturbing link, but it illustrates a valid point.
Some things work well without a relationship backing them.
Other things don’t.
This shows up in a clash of cultures – different cultures consider different activities to be relational. There’s a classic (urban?) legend of a missionary who accepts/gives a gift of some sort upon arrival in a [...]

He moves his mouth and his head while he sings.

Yaco Monti, ladies and gentlemen.

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 the Princess and the Pea… so long as you don’t count the princess (Part IV). Part I. Part II.  Part III.
Time doesn’t exist within a dungeon. That [...]

Are an icky combination.
Chris Blattman breaks down a book that talks about it. It turns out if you’re poor, you often don’t have any other choice but to go this route, and it’s not a happy route.
Banks don’t like poor people.

Our confidence is only as strong as the stuff it’s built on.
I’m immensely proud of being the #1 site for the search terms, “anglican funk” on Google. (It used to work without quotes, but now it only works with quotes.) It’s me, babe.
But when my confidence is based almost exclusively on funk, its not hard [...]

People try and use software without learning how. It’s a fact. People expect to just be able to use a computer program. Just like that. If you can’t just use it, it’s rubbish.
There’s this idea that we should be able to sit down before any computer program and just use it, without any need for [...]

Need to stop being so narcissistic.
For my own sake.