20 Years of Blogging (sorta) – Redux

20 number emblem

Twenty years ago, I started this blog with this post.1 Ten years ago, I missed my tenth anniversary.2 This year, I’d like to celebrate with listing meaningful milestones of the past twenty years: So that’s it! What will 2025 and…

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I’m 31! This is 11,111 in binary. Omg, I’m sooooooo old. When I started this blog, I was… um… like, totally, 19 years old and stuff. Wowza. How things havea changed! My first birthday on this blog was my 20th.…

Circling the Flame

This is a sort-of-sequel to this post. It is all-but-decided that I will be joining the faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno in September. This blog has been going since I was a junior in college, it’s strange to…

The Ten-Point Coffee Shop Grading Rubrik

Last time, I talked about my 10-point rubrik for public bathrooms. Now, I’d like to share my Coffee Shop Checklist. If you are thinking of starting a coffee shop, these items are essential (and listed in order of necessity). A…

2014 Redux

At the beginning of the year, I made some resolutions. How did I do? Get back to my 2010 weight and muscle mass. FAIL. Bwa ha ha ha ha, I’m in the worst shape ever! But I had many life…

How to Ensure Prison Rape

I don’t want to make any assumptions. I worry my penultimate post was very negative about prison rape. But, in the interest of fairness in media, I’ll teach you how to ensure prison rape happens to you or your loved…

How to Avoid Prison Rape

Some time ago, I remarked on a comment a now forgotten friend once said to me: They’ve already broken the social contract. You don’t know what else they’re capable of, so you should just obey what they say and hope…

Goodie Grab Bag XII

Ramadance!

We brought you to this bar to have an intervention. Man, I’m so rich, I use $100 bills for toilet paper. And I use toilet paper for something equally frivolous: like currency. Sorry, I have to go. My pedicurist is…