My titles are often six words
So, I’ve been a big fan of Clarity Sage‘s Six Word posts for a while. I liked One Sentence.org and Post Secret and Group Hug.us, so maybe I just like people that do a lot with a little. But recently,…
Logical Fallacy Sheet
So, you might be wondering what I’ve been doing since this post. If you guessed reading and studying for some major things I have to do…. you’re WRONG. I’ve been making a Spot the Logical Fallacy Cheat Sheet for my…
Spot the Logical Fallacy
While I was watching the political convention last week (and the week before as well, actually), it astounded me at how often the speakers would resort to obvious logical fallacies. I counted five false dichotomies and four straw men within…
100 Things about Me, pt. 100 of 100
100. I have no middle name, but the middle letters of my first and last name are “arlo” “arisca.” That amuses me because it over emphasizes the a’s. For the previous one hundred posts, I posted one new fact about…
More Grad School Games
99. Every two years, I get really into politics. I care a lot, but as I hate arguing with people, I tend not to say anything. I sometimes fear I’ve gotten too lax about people throwing out their beliefs. I…
Grad School Games
98. I have terrible posture, but I’m working on it. This is basically just the Pixelated Games taken to grad school, so I’ll just introduce the games as I develop them, rather than try to make this a running Olympic-style…
Sometimes, even I wonder if I’m just making it all up
97. I chose the wrong career. Twice. But I’ve never been blindsided by this. Jobs and money were just never important enough for me to care that I was heading in the wrong direction… that probably explains why I’m sleeping…
Quact
96. I cannot imagine the future, at all. I can’t even think of myself in two weeks: my mind just goes blank. This has been going on since I turned 21 and realized I was probably going to become an…
What’s this? Why is it all going over me? Could it be that I am in over my head?
95. My favorite books of all time: Ender’s Game, The Count of Monte Cristo, the Little Prince. I like them for different reasons: I can identify with a 12-year-old that was manipulated into xenocide (Ender’s Game), I really admire people…
SO LONG, SUCKERS!!
I mean that in the nicest of ways. 94. I was never a very black & white kind of person, but I definitely believed there were fewer shades of grey. I guess getting older has taught me that most things…
My mom says I shouldn’t pack the fine China with the bowling balls, I say she’s being too pessimistic
93. Apparently, when things get serious in an interpersonal/emotional way, I respond by telling jokes. I’m not emotionally unavailable— honest!— I just think that many times these trains of thought make people sad, so I have to constantly pull over…
There’ll be time enough to sleep when I’m dead… which will happen soon enough if I don’t go to sleep soon
92. My head is a perfect sphere, to counteract this, I cut my hair in a very top-heavy way. Also, I grow facial hair… all three and a half whiskers of it. The last line of this post, which I…
The score to beat is 2
91. I am not competitive by nature. By which I mean I am, I just win all the time, so I have to pretend I’m not. My friend Frank came up with a fabulous thought experiment: In a given month,…
Why does everybody love Pixel?
90. I’ve never made more than $7 an hour… yeah, I was getting ripped off for years, then I graduated and couldn’t find a job I liked or that paid well. I’m ashamed of that. Dear World, So… I’m back. …
Another Way to Avoid Getting Mugged
Here’s another strategy. It requires: No will to live Assume you’re about to get mugged. Step 1. Pull the pin to a grenade. Step 2. Hold it up and stare into the eyes of death. Step 3. Grin ear-to-ear menacingly.…
Wanna see what I’ve been doing during my vacation?
89. When I was 14 I made a conscious decision to be honest and stop making up stories. As a direct result, I’ve become a terrible, terrible liar. … And now, back to semi-retirement.
‘C’ for Cookie
88. I am a citizen of the world, but only two countries recognize my nationality: Mexico and the U.S. So weird. What’s this? Am I eating a cookie? How did that come about? Well, I’m glad you ask, World. See,…
Rigid Definitions
87. I’m afraid of waiters, secretaries, and janitors. Seriously. They have so much power over such a small area of your life that I fear angering them.