Almost everyone has an innocent desire to create art. Small children start drawing at 2-3 years old, just little stick figures, rainbows, or animals. Busy adults, who can’t commit a lot of time, go and sing Karaoke just to hear their own voice recreate the sounds of the original song, with their own little personalization.
Year: 2024
The Absence of Data
One time, I’d had a few drinks and I was sitting with a group of acquaintances and they asked if I believed in God. I tried not to answer, but they kept pushing me. Without me answering, they detected wavering and assumed the worst. They asked “what would you have to see to to believe!?!?”
Protected: What Being in a Punk Band Taught Me About a Corporate Sell-Out!
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Swing Heil Scrapbook
Background There are a lot of different types of relationships you can have in life. You can have casual connections, like the regulars you chat with at a coffee shop, or you can have the super close, yet irritating, relationships that only brothers and sisters can ever really have. There are best friends, wives, husband,
A Spiral Fracture
On March 17th, 2024, I crashed in Southeast Ohio, riding off-road and broke my leg. As I picked myself up off the ground, I looked down and saw my leg twisted and mangled, I had the dramatic realization that I was actually in trouble. It was more serious than any training I’d ever done. It
What Are You Running From?
Trekkers and hikers have a saying: “you pack your fears.” Runners and cyclists often talk about “what they’re running from or running toward. And, if you find it, will you quit running?” Ruckers have a saying they stole from the military: “embrace the suck!” At first glance, these different sayings might not seem to have
Top-line and Bottom-line Thinking
I’ve been lucky enough to have four major careers, and a bachelor’s degree that has nothing to do with any of them (LinkedIn), so I’ve been exposed to patterns that aren’t commonly seen by a single individual person. With each of my professional careers, there were different cultures, ways of thinking, complaints, etc, but one
Yellow Cab, Uber, and RoboTaxis
It was the night of May 17th at 2AM, and I was really starting to get scared. My leg was swelling badly, and starting to go numb. They had warned me that this might happen, and that if it did, I’d have to return to the hospital to have them loosen the splint on my
The Tesla Meta-Political Party
I remember the first time I detected that all Republicans had daily and weekly talking points after watching Fox News. It seamed to have happened post-9/11, after 24 hour news became a major part of American’s lives. Republicans definitely innovated and discovered this move before Democrats. They had talking points on Iraq, on Healthcare, on
Medical Evacuation and Rescue Insurance for The Adventure Traveler
I used to a play a pencil and paper game called Shadow Run, where you and your friends pretend to be a band of adventure seeking bounty hunters working for major corporations in a post-apocalyptic world similar to the movie Johnny Mnemonic. In this crazy, post-apocalyptic world, it was quite easy to buy medical evacuation
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