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…
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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…
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Missing the Edge

Saw a Ford Edge behind me while I was driving, and it made me sad. Current Mood: 🙁sad
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Old Fashioned Holiday

Meijer had this “Limited Edition Ginger Beer” that I was intrigued enough to try. I thought it would be like Ginger Ale (which my family LOVES), but it’s got quite a bite to it. It was not good on its own but after some experimentation, I’ve found it’s good to…
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Imagining Alt-Lansing: No I-496

The worst part of driving through the I-496 Project is seeing that the city could have functioned with 2 miles of minority neighborhoods still intact with some well-timed streetlights and a few multi-lane, one-way arteries. Progressive government incompetence destroyed this neighborhood. Current Mood: 🤔thoughtful
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More Healthcare Dysfunction

Welcome to America, home of complete medical dysfunction! In this country, your access to life saving medicines is always contingent on having access to a medical doctor. Don’t know if you noticed, but those are in very short supply right now. So when your doctor retires without warning (or gets…
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Birthday Anxiety

I’ve never enjoyed my birthday – nor the idea that we should celebrate a person just for having been pushed into the world. This year, with all the death and disease in the news and in our lives, my anxiety has been THROUGH THE ROOF. Wife and I have each…
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“Opening Day”

My favorite time of year: when the ice cream shop opens! Current Mood: 🙂excited
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An Allegory About Work

If your girlfriend told you all the time how much you’re loved, but also reminded you that she could easily do better than you, we’d call her a crazy bitch and tell you to get away!
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Death and Taxes

There are three truths: death, taxes, and bureaucrats making policy disconnected from reality. Current Mood: 😉crazy
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