Hello there, welcome to my small corner of the internet! This is a website I made because I felt like it. At first, it was just for my jokes, but then I s...
My last job, I had a coworker who thought it was very mysterious that so many people saw shadow people. A shadow person is a threatening dark figure people occasionally hallucinate, usually during sleep paralysis or after taking too many antihistamines. Now that I think about it, this is not mysterious at all. A shadow person is the simplest possible threatening hallucination. It's basically…
In and of itself, the Song of Solomon is not particularly weird. It's a wholesome erotic poem, mostly told as a dialogue between two young lovers. Sure, some of it sounds odd to modern ears. The man sees some analogy between fawns and his girlfriend's breasts, and he apparently thinks this is terribly sexy. But I have faith it made sense at the time. Will your steamy texts make sense in three…
There are truths, universally acknowledged, which every young person will soon learn about food. Paper plates save much time washing dishes. Dominoes has gotten much better since you were a child, Pizza Hut has gotten worse. If you make a mediocre batch of homebrew, your friends will still guzzle it up, because they are mentally comparing it to Coors Light and vodka. But, there are many less…
I have two fantasies involving cars. On the one hand, I wish I owned a Mercury Colony Park. Historians are unsure which car Christ drove, 1 but I tend to think it was a Mercury Colony Park. From an aesthetic perspective, the Mercury Colony Park simply is the ideal car. Yet, this longing will never be satisfied. Ere I was born, the Mercury Colony Parks grew old and world-weary. So they sailed to…
I have known a lot of conspiracy theorists. I spent much of my teens in the American homeschooling subculture, which exposes one to the lunatic fringe of evangelical conservatism. 1 I encountered some vanilla conspiracies which hardly register as weird to me anymore. The 2020 election was apparently stolen, vaccines gave all of us the autism. 2 Jet fuel, I was oft assured, cannot melt steel beams.…
I recently brewed some hard peach cider (I think peach and apple taste good together). I used three quarts of sweet cider and one quart of peach juice, used wine yeast because I didn't feel like buying a dedicated cider yeast. Forgot to record the starting gravity, but it was in the 5-7% range, about where you expect ciders to be. I bottled it yesterday. It's not terrible, but it's not great…
Awhile ago, I heard someone describe a bad Newgrounds animation as slop. This seemed wrong to me at the time, but I had trouble articulating why. I think I can now. Slop is not merely bad content, nor is it merely low-effort content. Non-professional singing is often bad, and it is typically quite low-effort, but it is certainly not slop. Neither is a child's drawing. A let's play can be quite…
Special interests are the most easily depathologized facet of autism, but they can still make one's life more difficult than it needs to be. Recently, a friend's reputation suffered because he spent four hours nonconsensually telling his coworkers about anime. I could regale you with many similar stories from my life, but that would unearth many cringeworthy memories. And I can't do that on a…
In theological discussions, people will often say "most Christians accepted such and such a theological position" or "most Christians read this part of the Bible such and such a way." But this is rarely true. Throughout history, the vast majority of Christians have been illiterate, and thus had no chance to read the Bible. Of course, most of them heard plenty of it in church, but who knows how…
When I was a kid, sandboxy block games were all the rage. But, you basically had to choose between Minecraft and Shitty Knockoffs of Minecraft. 1 A few of them were fairly high quality and creative. But, generally, " Minecraft clone" meant "derivative slop." So far as I can tell, this is no longer the case. If you want to play " Minecraft but it's good at being a survival game," you can play…