My boss for 5 years was named Jonathan. I called him Jon all those years. It wasn t until my last month in that job that I realized that he always called himself Jonathan . I don t remember if I had learned the dimunitive from others or if I had just made an assumption. That embarrassing memory [ ]
Society used to laud the high-born, letting them act as though they were better than everyone else because they were born into wealthy families. Society now seems to look at those born into wealth as having an unfair advantage. The “self-made” millionaire has more respect than the trust fund kid. The wealthy will always have [ ]
Now that I have children in college, every year I need to log into studentaid.gov to fill out the parent portion of my oldest children s FAFSA applications. The default screen after I log in is a summary of my own financial aid from 1995-1997. In giant green numbers, the My Aid dashboard shows I ve received [ ]
I like to do the Crypto Quip. It s frustrating to deal with the mechanics of finding all the matching letters, so I wrote a quick program to track my progress for me:
I have some affiliation with Amazon, so I know I have bias. I m speaking for myself here. I ve followed the Alabama Amazon union saga in the news. All the stories I saw told of inhumane working conditions, employees fed up with unreasonable expectations, and Amazon illogically arguing that a union was unnecessary. Less than 30% [ ]
I am proposing a system for electronic voting that will prevent the issues we currently see with accusations of voter fraud and inaccurate counting. Assumptions: The existing systems for registering voters is sufficient. We can accurately identify people who are qualified to vote. Some existing methods for authenticating online users will be deemed adequate for [ ]
I almost never hear about Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or The Squad from mainstream news. Fox News reports on her constantly. She represents the extreme left in Congress. It s easy for Fox viewers to get riled up about how liberals want to disband ICE, defund police, excuse looters, and introduce socialism. Most liberals don t think that [ ]
Every time I enter a mattress store, I m greeted with go ahead and lay down on the mattresses . I always wonder what they expect me to lay. You d think a mattress store employee would know better. Can conjugate the verb to lie should be in the job description. I ve ranted about this before.
I just received an email for the SquareTrade settlement: Dear SquareTrade customer, You are receiving this email because you purchased a SquareTrade Protection Plan on Amazon between April 20, 2012 and October 8, 2018 and are eligible for a Settlement Coupon. This coupon entitles you to a $10 discount on a SquareTrade smartphone protection plan. [ ]
As a society, we care about culpability. If a person has their first seizure while driving and injures a pedestrian, we feel badly for that driver. If the same person had run down the pedestrian intentionally, we’d expect them to be severely punished. We consider it to be wrong, even immoral, to credit or fault [ ]