Ever seen someone do something boneheaded? Ever hear someone say something so completely ignorant of basic facts that you wonder how they manage to feed themselves every day? You probably thought to yourself, ‘this person is a grade A moron.’ Now, think hard and honestly. Have you ever been that Read more…
I was playing a game of Civilization the other night, a game I’ve played in various forms for almost 30yrs now. I set almost all of the settings to random and ended up with the Maori. I built my first city and started figuring out a win condition based on Read more…
We’re approaching Thanksgiving here in the US of A. One of the common tropes about the holiday is getting together with family and having to put up with someone’s old racist grandparents. Or uncle. That got me thinking. What out of touch thing will my generation do when we’re the Read more…
There’s a new meme floating around the internet. In response to someone saying something condescending, ignorant, racist or out of touch Gen Z coined the response “Ok boomer.” It’s a digital eye-roll. It’s flippant and irreverent. And it’s perfect. A fair number of people are quite incensed about it. There Read more…
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. We’ve watched the Houston Astros for the last few years. For the most part, we’ve just watched the games, not paying any attention to any news stories or learning anything about the players. Then that whole controversy with one of the managers Read more…
There’s a common trope about people being scared of the dentist. I’ve never had trouble going to the dentist though. Sure, it’s a bit uncomfortable and the scraping part is annoying. But your mouth comes out feeling clean. Plus having all my teeth at 80 sounds like a good life Read more…
One of my nieces started high school this fall. She was pretty nervous about it and while talking I mentioned I still have reoccurring dreams where I’m in high school. I’m late for class, haven’t done the assignment and need to get my books from my locker. But I’ve forgotten Read more…
Ah the roar of jetplanes in the sky. That tells me it’s time to go outside. You might be asking yourself, huh? Well, every year Ellington Field hosts an airshow in mid October. This also happens to almost always coincide with the first real cool weather in Houston. So we Read more…
I own two Houston Astros shirts. I wore one last week on the day of the first ALDS game. I wore the second one the next day. Then they were in the laundry until the day before game 5. After washing them, I remembered the game and put one on. Read more…
For a long time now I’ve been struggling to put into words some ideas. They’ve been hovering just out of my grasp. Recently, I watched a video that finally articulated this idea in a concise way that was eluding me. This video is part of a series that I found interesting Read more…