Note: 2018–04–10: Thinking about reworking blog.donaldguy.com yet again, so importing the 3 entries on the Ghost blog into Medium cause ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ So here we are, May 1st. AAApril has come to an end (in fact, perhaps not spirit). How did it go? Adherence Pretty good, noticeably faltering in the last week. …

Note: 2018–04–10: Thinking about reworking blog.donaldguy.com yet again, so importing the 3 entries on the Ghost blog into Medium cause ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It’s going like … okay. Adherence For the most part, I’m following the rules. …

Note: 2018–04–10: Thinking about reworking blog.donaldguy.com yet again, so importing the 3 entries on the Ghost blog into Medium cause ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 31 March 2017 TL;DR for the month of April (2017), I will be entirely absent from social mass-media & avoiding some unhealthy stuff IRL. I may or may not…

I hear the world is full of pain, Flooding, terror, acid rain; Music, theatre, laughs and art, Whiskey, coffee, beer and darts, Rainbows, glaciers, hiking trails; Rare pepes and EPIC FAILs, Overwatch and Pokemon Go; Donald Trump and Bernie Bros; Dreams, and Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll, Dharma, Love, and the…

Happy easter, now my head is an egg Today, to the amusment of my friends and likely befuddlement of my parents and coworkers, I am shaving my head. I am doing this for several reasons, but at the core, its an act of ritual, an act of metaphor. For years…

mostly from podcasts about other parts of the world — I just go back from a 2.5 hour walk from my apartment, across the Brooklyn bridge, lost in China town, and then back again across the Manhattan bridge. I don’t particularly feel much like original thought, but I learned some things—mostly from listening to episodes of the BBC QI staff’s…

Unresearched, largely unstructured rambling confusion — In service of making up for yesterday’s missed piece and keeping on a roll of talking about things which are probably kind of silly and which I really know relatively little about, I want to talk about clubs. Broadly, without looking in a dictionary, I think the the word club…

In consideration of this week’s social app craze — Much ink has been spilled in the last 72 or so hours about “the latest social app craze”. I’ve seen many profiles describing it, and talking about its success and its creator, but few trying to look past the success into the causes or logic, if any, behind it. …

“It’s nice to want things” — https://www.flickr.com/photos/mburpee/4928429020/ Preface In introspection, I have recently noticed a perhaps regrettable paradox of my psyche (at this point in my life): —in spite of ongoing (and somewhat effectual) efforts to the contrary, I am pretty “good” at worrying or preoccupation about the future; —this notwithstanding, I am not very good at simply planning…