They say that athletes and mathematicians peak in their 20s. I suspect that is the case for most people as well, which given our ever expanding life spans is likely a tremendous problem ( Read more... )

Growing up in the 1980s, episodic television required commitment. A commitment to spending the same time, every week, waiting through periods of repeats, in an attempt to follow the narrative. Comedies worked better. If you missed a week of Night Court, you might not see all of John Larroquette's brilliance, but you didn't need to be concerned ( Read more... )

Each act in our lives requires some risk, some small, some large. Appreciating that risk is critical in making an informed decision. Too often, modern society takes one or a handful of incidents as a reason to remove more risk from society. While lowering risk can be a societal positive, lowering risk without a commensurate reward is a waste of ( Read more... )

The absolute best part of being an early adopter to a well known E-Mail service is that I get mail clearly intended from other people. In the past few years, I've been offered Seahawks tickets, offered opportunities to speak at farm conferences, received invitations to intimate gatherings and have even had the opportunity to be part of two singles ( Read more... )

You would think, after three years, numerous life events (nearly misspelled as live events, as if I were illiterate or discussing the various concerts I've been to) and countless great stories lost to the graveyard of time, I would come back with something better. However, you are most certainly wrong ( Read more... )

One of the great things about the internet is the absolutely insane amount of information available at our fingertips. In some ways, this makes it harder to find anything, since the information is more than any one man, woman, child or computer can really handle. On the other hand, it does make reading about some of our favorite topics a great ( Read more... )

Once a year, we all begin on an annual rite of spring. Not sacrificing a goat or a virgin to ensure a good yield for the crops, though this might not be a bad idea in today's topsy-turvy economic climate. No, it is time to do our taxes. That dreaded time when we gather all of our records and try to figure out how can I give the government less ( Read more... )

Well, as I embark down the long winding road of modern dentistry I have learned the processes are generally not painful thanks to our good friends Lidocaine and Novocaine, but tend to be exceptionally time-consuming and somewhat discomforting ( Read more... )

Some days, I sit in my living room and wonder how all of it arrived in this small space. It did not generally come in twos or threes, but ones, added slowly over time. Sure, sometimes things arrived in large batches, but one at a time, this collection assembled ( Read more... )

I realized today it was approximately a year and a half since I made any kind of effort to make a post in my online journal. Over the years, six of them to be precise, I've made postings on at least three different forums and probably more that I started once or so and let lapse like my Catholic upbringing. Nonetheless, I misclicked on one of my ( Read more... )