When I was in college, I had a video cassette recorder (VCR). It proved to be a popular item, and sometimes people would ask to borrow it to watch movies. One guy named Rob used the strategy of a fake, Victorian-era British accent for his request:

"Perchance to borrow the vicker??"

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In high school, I was on the honors track. I took honors English, every math course that was offered, physics, and two years of chemistry. I only took one year of biology. Maybe it was the teacher or I just found memorizing facts about things you can't see without a...

jasonleow   said he was looking into using a tool called Writesonic. Per the website, this company offers AI-powered writing tools to generate high-performing ads, blogs, landing pages, product descriptions, etc. Okay, this sounds like an interesting idea. You have my curiosity. As I...

I stumbled upon a property-trading game called Upland. There is an app and a website. The selling point of this game is that allows you to buy, sell and trade digital properties based on real-world addresses. The in-game currency is UPX, which is a cryptocurrency. 

Everyone starts the game as a...

The masses have come for Joe Rogan again. Since I don't have Spotify, I have not listened to the episode in question, but according to reports, this is what he said about vaccines:

Rogan said that while he believes the vaccine is safe, he doesn’t think young, healthy people need it....

I'm sure I have committed my share of rookie mistakes]] When you're learning something new, there's plenty you don't know and you don't know what you don't know. Once you get to a certain level of proficiency and knowledge, you can now recognize rookie mistakes made by others. I saw...

Basecamp ruffled some feathers this week with the announcement of some policy changes. I do like a good feather-ruffling. I've had twenty years of experience working in an office, so I thought I'd offer my two cents about these changes. Let's take them one by one.

1. No more societal and...

In a conversation the other day, I came to the realization that I may be caught in a vicious circle.

I refer to the day job as "blurk." It pays me well, but I don't leap out of bed in the morning anxious to hop on the computer. Some days are...

It appears that the Oscars ratings have hit an all-time low. I didn't watch the ceremony and haven't watched it in many years. When I had satellite TV with a DVR, I recorded it in case a boob popped out or some other view-worthy moment. I was looking for a...

During the summer one Sunday, I had an ancillary task involving tires. There was a large pile of tires that had accumulated on the side of the building. I was asked to organize the tires by size and identify the ones that were too worn to be used. 

Tires are annoying...