Category: Opinion

  • On the 2022 World Cup in Qatar

    I deleted my Twitter account yesterday given the garbage new owner and his unrelenting awfulness. I’m not interested in being involved with any of that crap. Then I wanted to say something today about the World Cup and would have normally done that on Twitter. Oh well, I do have this blog and I can…

  • Being “That Guy”

    Something struck me today as I was pulling on my riding gear after lunch. I really enjoy being that guy. Not that guy you hate (that’s a different guy, really!) but that guy you look at and wonder what the hell is wrong with him. The person who does things differently. The hard way. Who…

  • Merlin on Complaining

    I think there’s a lot of people who would say “you’re never allowed to complain about something unless you have a solution,” and I disagree. I think if you have a really good complaint about something it’s not always your job to have to fix it too. And furthermore, the people who do go out…

  • On Writing

    The Problem I used to write in word processors and use formatting, but I found that most of the time all I really want is words. It doesn’t take a lot of effort to make your meaning clear with only text and a few simple pieces of markup. We learned to do this many, many…