The Ongoing Escapades of Poor Yorick's Almanack
I’m back in the saddle again. Yes readers, I broke into the castle, stole the sacred manuscript, and escaped the country with its contents. Actually, it was the technical equivalent of breaking …
“Bleeding badly from a face-lift” would make a good first line of a country song, so here goes
Bleeding badly from a face-lift And sitting drunk behind the wheel I light another cig-a-rette And imagine how you’d feel If I had left you broke and lonely And desperately wanting me Never …
Internet Terms of Use
Internet Terms of Use By accessing the global, shared, public, standardized network of computers (from now on the Internet), you agree to the following: - The Internet is a risky and/or dangerous …
The order of things
Universe is 14 billion years old (4.3×10^17 seconds) Sun is 4.57 billion years old Earth is 4.54 billion years old Life is 3.8 billion years old Mammals are 225 million years old Humans are 200,000 …
Hi, oh, sorry, the door was open
Hi, oh, sorry, the door was open… So I just… Didn’t mean to intrude. The sign? No! The signs? What signs? Oh, yes. I see them. I see them now. Well, anyway, sorry. I’m truly …
Aldus Huxley on the origins of misery
“At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf …
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” –Herman Melville
What I've learned from grief
You don’t have to feel any way other than how you’re feeling I’ve met a few people in their early grief who worry about feeling numb about their loss. It makes them worry that …
Song of the Day: “I Wish I Knew” performed by John Coltrane
There are sad songs. There are beautiful songs. Then there are songs whose beauty and sadness are intertwined and inseparable, like this one. There’s a quickly paced piano intro, played in a …
Come with the Dust, Gone with the Wind
For some reason this morning, Bob Dylan’s “Song to Woody” (YouTube link has an unrelated Woodie Guthrie performance at the beginning) is stuck in my head. Particularly, this verse, …