not 20-something

Returning to the mindset of a student after around 14 years is… strange. I would say it’s difficult, but I’ve been casually studying various things through online courses for at least the last 8 or 9 years, so studying and classwork have not become completely

I’d imagined this bear-themed rendition of a classic song, but it occurs to me that there probably isn’t really a song here. Perhaps there’s a mashup happening. Perhaps there is merely a breaking of the brain due to stress. Perhaps that humanistic need to have

What are your dreams? What are your broken dreams? Inspired by: The dream we haven’t dared to dream TED Talk by Dan Pallotta

You may have heard for a fair portion of the last couple of decades that recycling is important because all that plastic junk you use and throw out will not break down in landfills any time soon. You may have even heard of the horrors

Sometimes you have an existential crisis after reading some post-humanist sci-fi novels and watching post-humanist sci-fi shows…. The future of technology is essentially unknown, but science fiction writers have historically been able to draw upon the current and past states of science, tech, and society

So I went to Brain Candy Live, and my Lyft driver on the way back asked me what I do for fun…. This question always reminds me of my lack of real hobbies.

The sad fact of mortality is that it is for all. Flora, fauna, the moon, the stars, the universe. All have a time limit. Most of us don’t know what our limit is. If you spend all your time worrying about your end, you’ll probably

“Brave death for brevity”… words I’m pretty sure someone might be living by. Someone somewhere is doing the thing you wish you were doing. You should become that person before you become the person who is somewhere else sitting around and wishing they had done.

It occurs to me that I have a backlog of thoughts regarding the inability to party like one once did, the inappropriateness of short shorts and other articles of clothing  seen in both balmy and brisk weather situations, and other minor mental disruptions. …I shall