One Man’s Valuable Possessions are Another Man’s “Irrelevant Abundance”

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How do you separate that which is clutter from that which is actually valuable in a society that’s trying to rid itself of meaningless [...]

Fallout 3 – Totally Stuck in a Rock

This is my character in Fallout 3 being totally stuck in a rock.
This is also me being really sarcastic about my character being stuck in a rock.
Better still, I demonstrate how to get stuck in a rock all by yourself in your own game of Fallout 3! Yay! Fun for everyone, truly.
The [...]

Death = $$$

This is definitely not the first time I’ve seen this trend (I remember it with George Carlin specifically, as one example) but, as it turns out, death is a really, really good marketing move.
Only works once though.
Honestly I had little to no affection for his music and I thought he was more than a [...]

Apocalyptic Graduation

The realization was slow to set in, but now I am sure of it. I am graduating into the apocalypse.
Swine flu is going to kill everybody.
The recession is going to make the world’s economy collapse.
People will soon begin to ransack abandoned buildings for sustenance. Black markets will spring up around goods that have been [...]

Forgotten Smiles

I have been caught underneath a veritable flood of nostalgia as of late. Frequently I have found myself fondly yearning for things from all different stages of my childhood.
Frankly it’s beginning to worry me a little.
Does this mean I’m getting old? Am I unsatisfied with my current life? Do I wish to return to “better [...]

Wallpaper Concoction

There is a particular type of desktop wallpaper that I seem to like very much which is not overly easy to come by on the expansive Interwebs.  Good wallpapers are hard enough to find, much less ones that fit my rather strange tastes.
The particular style in question is that of minimalism.  I like to have [...]

Philosophy in Abstraction

Why are all philosophy classes a giant load of nonsense?
Every course I’ve taken in the discipline feels like such wasted potential.  There are so many fascinating questions and issues to explore in philosophy.
What does it mean to be beautiful?
How do we know what we know?
What is human nature?
How do we assign value to things in [...]