Year: 2023
CVS [doesn’t care]’mark
I have always prided myself on being pretty libertarian in my beliefs, but a single experience calling CVS Caremark (our prescription drug insurance) has made me decide to lobby with the Leftists to get the entire industry out of business. Here’s the back story: wife needed an eye surgery and…
Not Impressed with the new PR Movie
The new Power Rangers Netflix movie came out recently and I kept meaning to watch it. Wife went to sleep early yesterday so I turned it on. It was an interesting take on characters who’ve been off screen for… two decades? But my overall impression was low enough I could…
Making Google Money
Every time I get one of these “your edit helped,” emails from Google, I just think, “I did free work and helped make Google $62 billion last year.” This is why, for the most part, I stick to editing on OpenStreetMap. Much less restrictive usage policy and it’s not directly…
Consciousness and Life
After dealing with some health anxiety and fear around death and dying, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be conscious, living, or what even “real” is in the world. Sometime ago, I read a theory that talked about how any particular moment in our universe is…
Entrepreneurs Aren’t The Bad Guys
There are a lot of (rightful) criticisms about billionaire entrepreneurs, but I’m forever grateful to people like Bezos and the people who work for them who make our lives significantly better. Amazon gave me (a working class tech-guy) an affordable, usable, personal assistance and personal shopper. While my wife was…
AI Photo Editing
Remember that photo from the #tripledemic where I was barely clean and happy to be breathing better? Out of curiosity, I ran it through an AI photo editor that I’ve been playing with. The prompt was something like, “attractive brunette man in flannel shirt” and it returned a fun anime…
Another Brush With Death
I have always believed that our souls incarnate in humans to learn some kind of lesson and grow in a spiritual sense. If that’s the case, I have no idea what my wife is supposed to be learning, but MAN-OH-MAN has she been having a rough couple of years! Basically,…