For that one person who's still checking this site, you should stop.

I am still blogging though, it's now at http://www.veritography.com

But if you want to continue reading my rants on livejournal, you can. Just add Veritography to your friend's list. It's an RSS feed, which means it' ( Read more... )

For months I’ve been coasting in neutral, gradually slowing to no known end. I’ve had no idea what my future held in store for me. And now, after receiving one letter, life has suddenly slid down into second gear and hit the gas ( Read more... )

I’ve been doing the same 3 coin tricks to every child I’ve run into for the last 10 years. I can make a quarter roll over the backs of my fingers, I can make it disappear in my hand, and I can pull it out from behind a kid’s ear ( Read more... )

It’s a gray and cloudy day. Memorial day should always be gray and cloudy ( Read more... )

Have you ever seen a movie that stirred up memories you’d been subconsciously stewing over for years? You see a tale portrayed on the screen and it’s just familiar enough to bring to mind something that happened to you once? I recently sat down to watch the 1995 independent film “Before Sunrise” and it’s 2004 sequel “Before Sunset”, which are ( Read more... )

Two more updates

In recognition of Earth Day, here is My Favorite Description of the Planet.

As I pulled into Topeka the other day, I headed towards the Motel 6, parked the car, checked the nightly rate on the billboard, and started the ritualized dance of getting a cardkey issued for the evening. The woman behind the counter recited her practiced lines, “Smoking or non-smoking? Please sign here, initial here, and fill out the make and ( Read more... )

An old roommate of mine from Iowa once told me that the reason Kansas and Nebraska were invented was to keep Iowans out of Colorado ( Read more... )

For the last 10,000 years, our society has spread from the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East (and lots of other places) throughout all the land. Little by little, people around the world stopped hunting their food and started growing it. And compared to the hunter/gatherer life, farming sucked. You had to do a lot more work to grow enough food ( Read more... )