Lesson 5: Retirement: Why Shuffleboard Is a Poor Way to Spend Your Final Days ( Read more... )

Excellent news. One more year of law school has been successfully completed. And by successfully completed I mean unsuccessfully. For anyone reading this (or should I say if anyone is reading this) never ever go to law school. Ever. It's not good. In fact I would say that it is less fun than having sexual congress with an angry porcupine.

Lesson 3: How to Plunder for a Family ( Read more... )

Ever feel like strangling somebody, anybody? What do you do if that feeling doesn’t go away? Should I be concerned? Or should society?

I’m going with society.

If I were wire-tapping phones here are several of the keywords my computer program would pick out ( Read more... )

I am so smart. S-M-R-T.

So you want to be a Viking. Well the path to becoming a Viking is neither easy nor really a path (it involves a lot of sea travel which is inherently hostile to the concept of paths). But at the end of that quasi-path you’ll find innumerable rewards just waiting to be reaped. Join me now as I explore the life of the twenty-first century Viking ( Read more... )

Ethan grew up in quiet (read boring) Western Pennsylvania in the late Cretaceous period (read the eighties). From an early age he showed a remarkable ability to…well actually he didn’t show any kind of ability at all, remarkable or otherwise. But that would all change during the early nineties in a faraway land when a ruthless dictator invaded a ( Read more... )

10. The beard. It makes me look mysterious and by “mysterious” I mean “disheveled, too lazy to shave, and in my late thirties ( Read more... )

So it’s been nearly two months since I’ve shared my unique world view, i.e. inane ramblings, with my loyal audience, i.e. no one. By way of apology for my hiatus from the web journal scene (and what a dull scene it must have been for you these past two months) I would like to relate the following story ( Read more... )