I’ve gotten sick a couple times where there was no good place to hurl, but good christ an airplane is full of convenient barf bags. They should have thrown his ass off the plane on general principles.

I was on this flight and this lady with a screaming baby just sat there with her boob out...just kidding. I’m at this point in my life where you wanna be naked, you wanna dress funny, you wanna have a bizarre haircut to attract attention? That’s fine, I’m cool with it and I’m not even going to react, just smile and go…

This is a great article. Particularly about home ownership. The “American Dream” is a myth that is pushed by marketers to lock down an income stream. That’s what debt is, it’s an income stream for someone else. That’s why corporate America is so in love with debt and memberships. They learned a long time ago that…

Debt is a personal choice, and it’s fine if you choose it. If you have the discipline to use it the way you think it should be used, then you’re in good shape. The reason debt is dangerous, though, is because it assumes that your income will stay the same or increase over time. Three guys in their sixties where I…

You might care about that, but I don’t. I’m not saying you’re wrong, and the fact is I’m what you’d probably describe as an asshole, but I’m getting up there in years and I just don’t want to spend time on unnecessary or uncomfortable crap. I’ll be nice about it, but blunt, and most people aren’t equipped for that. If…

My parents didn’t do shit for me. From the time they divorced when I was 13 they were too busy starting their new lives to bother with their kids. I raised myself from that age on.

My grampa used to say “the harder I work the luckier I get.” Once I realized that was true I never had another such problem. It’s scary to me now, though, how close I came to total ruin, either by ending up in the prison system or just dead. Good to know I’m not alone in that.

The miserable man and evil minded
makes of all things mockery,
and knows not that which he best should know,
that he is not free from faults.
- Odin

The most dreaded words in my life are, “all you have to do is...” I think I’m pretty good at thinking creatively, looking for solutions, and finding the shortest route to a particular objective. Yes, I probably have some carefully guarded misconceptions and my share of wishful thinking, and I despise that attitude of…

Right up until you don’t have an income any more and you have bills to pay. This “the stock market is a long term investment” idea is based on the fallacy that you will always have income enough to pick and choose what to do with your money. It’s a fallacy pushed by the people on Wall Street that benefit from your…

I spend all day listening to people say things or ask questions that serve no purpose but to showcase knowledge. The ones who are comfortable making a statement usually start with “actually.” Those that are too shy will phrase it as a question: “isn’t it true that...?” If you’re in a room full of those kind of people…

This strikes me as a good way to get botulism.

Yes. I was a complete and total piece of crap in my early twenties and lived in the woods eating off of food stamps. I did it voluntarily and stayed drunk and high most of the time. I didn’t even realize how close I came to killing myself, and when it came time to move back inside (winter in Montana is not outdoor…

To have known people that wake up screaming reliving the horrors of Viet Nam or the second world war is probably more common with my generation, but then so is compassion.

And the world uttered a collective “meh.”

And the world uttered a collective “meh.”

This is a slap in the face to folks suffering from PTSD, specifically war veterans.

Spooks.

In some work cultures (like the government for instance) nothing happens if you don’t have a face to face meeting and get everyone to agree to whatever it is you’re having a meeting about. You have to look them in the eye. Nothing gets done over email. It sucks, and it’s one of the reasons government is inefficient,…

Ina stole that from me. I’ve been doing it way longer than she has, dammit!

I’m the opposite. I can’t think of anything that could harm me that would survive 500 degrees for a couple hours. First I fire it up, let the fire burn anything that’s there for a while, then brush it, oil it, and let ‘er rip. What’s going to be left after that?