It’s one of those days where too little sleep leaves me unwilling to work, yet not tired enough to go sprawl out in bed. Such is the season of gas-powered leaf blowers wielded by morning-fixated do-gooders, who you can’t really condemn because their sheer weight in numbers grants them some ephemeral right to produce blaring [...]

Money. I’m sure everyone has heard by now that 1% of Americans have more money than the entire 95% of the rest of us combined. The fact seems to shock many people, but honestly, I don’t mind. As long as we are free and not torturing or killing people or things without the most ironclad [...]

It is always interesting when your past meets up with your present. Chris has just resurfaced after many long travels. This isn’t the Chris who is struggling with a sense of personal honor in relation to identity. This is the Chris who found it, probably by losing himself through the shedding of prior definitions, then [...]

It’s never easy penetrating a person’s thick head. Especially when they have their jaw muscles gripped tightly down on something they refuse to let go. Because at that point, nothing matters. They’re just going to keep that ball firmly in their teeth no matter what. Science is thrown out the window. Reason is trampled down [...]

After we’ve lived a while, we can look back and possibly notice various milestones that represent time markers along our progress. For me, one of the most significant markers are the release dates of Debian GNU/Linux. They don’t come often, and that, like most things, is both good and bad.
I’ve written a modest amount about [...]