I downloaded an addon for my browser yesterday that allows me to block websites/webpages/really any part of the web I wish to with no overrides. Sure, I can just remove the addon, but it’s working so far. It’s a victory for my focus and time spent, but a part of me is angry I had […]
Category: Rants
Human Verification
GenAI, GenAI, GenAI. It’s the talk of the town, a strong and sustained interest of mine, and what keeps us all up at night—even if we don’t realize it. The S&P500 is propped up by AI. Consumer electronics are being sunset because of AI hardware demands. AI rules hiring, AI threatens creative expression, AI AI […]
Context-Sensitive Game Controls are the Devil
I’ve been replaying the earlier Assassin’s Creed games recently, namely the first four. I’m in the middle of the third, Brotherhood and reminded of just how great they are. Riveting story, beautiful scenery, and the smooth flow of combat and movement—when it flippin’ works. Truly, movement is almost as smooth as Mirror’s Edge when you […]
Struggling with Idealism
(Be warned: This is an edited transcription of my vocal rambling. I’d post the audio link but unfortunately I’m under the weather with seasonal allergies and wouldn’t be able to edit out all the sniffling and coughing.) I’m almost tempted to call this 20 minutes of rambling bullshit. That’s pretty much what it is, because […]
Destroy It All, Punish A Few
Tonight, PBS Newshour aired a segment where an ex-ranger, Lydia Jones for the National Park Service was interviewed. It’s in light of the recent swath of firings that’s affected the entire federal government. There aren’t many unequivocally good things the United States has done. Even in that category, most are making up for a mistake […]
I am Angry About Missiles
President Trump’s Executive Order to begin construction of the ‘American Iron Dome’ There’s about a hundred other issues that have equal, if not greater importance to the current state of our nation than this. The federal grants freeze, the attack on birthright citizenship, you name it. I’m not exactly sure what neuron of mine snapped […]
Inauguration
(Transcribed and edited from raw audio rambling. Listen here if you really have nothing better to do.) Where to start? So I knew when the inauguration was, and that I would have feelings about it. I told myself in the lead up to it happening that I would practice what I’m preaching and give the […]
This Week In Politics
No this isn’t the start of a newsletter or anything. I just am sitting here watching the last night of the Republican National Convention, where in a 20 minute stretch there was a sellout preacher comparing Donald Trump to a messiah, followed by a video of Donald Trump dancing set to the Village People’s ‘YMCA,’ […]
Debate Debacle
Full disclosure: I’m writing this coming off of the unmitigated dumpster fire that was the presidential debate held earlier tonight. The imbibing of spirits may be a contributing factor. This debate was intended to be something different. Changed rules, a focus on the candidates, no nonsense cheering and impotent moderators. I was cautiously excited about […]
A Prism of Political Debasement
Today, my esteemed governor Jeff Landry decided to all but destroy the separation of church and state in Louisiana. That is no exaggeration; there’s little other ways that you can construe HB71 as anything but equating the importance of the Ten Commandments with the most core of foundational American documents, to be enforced in a […]
