Man Alive! elucidates the ontology of human social relationships, but it’s dense, tough sledding. Appended below is a easier-reading summary of some of these ideas. I wrote this as a speech for my Toastmaster’s Club in August of 2001. In the blog.world, I’ll throw out details about our lives, but that’s really just so much […]
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She loved me better than any dog I’ve ever known. She loved me better than I deserved, more than I ever did anything to earn. She was with me at my desk all day and on the floor beside my bed all night. When I left the house, she would wait for my return where […]
Kicking this back to the top from February of 2007, although the underlying essay is much older than that. This is the shortest statement I have made, so far, of the ontology of human behavior. –GSS Russell Shaw has mentioned the film The Secret a couple of times. Cathy bought the DVD, and we took […]
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Overnight News: Translating multiculturalism: Tolerant means negligent. Diligent means exterminated.
“The difference between a nudge and a grudge is complex memory – all in your head.”This is me, coming on six years ago, nevermore newsworthy than now: One line from Shyly’s delight: A Driven who is not in charge of something important to him will be disruptive – and eventually destructive. To be rational is to […]
“If forty bucks is still too much for you, there are wonderful free puppies in cardboard boxes all over town.”There really is a Crazy Linda, and she really does call herself that, and she really does go to the puppy store at the Arrowhead Mall every day. I can’t imagine what the past year has done […]
A couple weeks ago we got together with an old friend whom we had not seen in some while. She made a huge point of remarking that my appearance had not changed at all, which I dismissed as a kindly untruth, sweet but surely very far from being accurate. It turns out she was closer […]
The pitch… That’s a sweet offer in the headline, don’t you think? It’s like Batman meets Ironman, but it’s all real — achievable now, no super-human powers required. Not enough? You want more? How’s this? I can show you how to all-but-eliminate every sort of street crime. I can show you how to protect any […]
So Cathy wanted for us to go to a holiday party last night with one of her favorite clients. I never want to do stuff like that, but I always want for my best-beloved to be happy. Turns out I got out of going anyway. While we were walking the dogs on the Arizona Canal […]
If you’ve seen me in real life, you that know I walk with an ugly limp. I walk fast, but I don’t walk pretty. I was in a car accident in October of 1994, and one of my injuries was the severing of the nerves that control my left foot. Looks normal, works okay, but […]
I could argue that much of what goes on in the social sciences consists of pseudo-scientific “proofs” that the human mind is nothing special. Sure, volitional-conceptuality — the ability to engage in mental self-reference by means of abstraction and the ability to act upon those abstractions as a free moral agent — is unprecedented in […]
That, literally, is a snapshot of my goal-pursuits for September 2010. W is for walking every day for 30 minutes, a little over a mile, with Cathleen, Shyly, Odysseus and Ophelia. I sneered at walking before we started doing it, thinking it nothing compared to a hard half-hour on my mountain bike. But wrestling with […]
I wrote this in the Summer of 2001, also. At the time, my friend Richard Riccelli convinced me to sit on it because it’s pretty arch. Even so, this is the counterpoint to Shyly’s delight. How to succeed at failure I work in sales, and while I don’t have many role models for success at […]
We’re going to lose Desdemona, our English Coon Hound, tonight. She’s been with us for more than ten years, and she was an adult when we adopted her. A long life for a big dog. Desi is by far the smartest dog we’ve ever known, the most willful, the cleverest escape artist, the most vociferous […]
Every so often, Mona and I attend to a close friend’s First Grader while the single mother does her required corporate traveling gig for one of the remaining Fortunate 100 oligopolies. During these few time warped days each month I am thrust into grandfatherly duties which I find to be almost Dali-esque as I, at […]