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Ripples

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Doug

Like you, I love to watch time travel movies. You don’t? Get thee behind me, Satan! I kid. If there’s anything we’ve learned about time travel from fictional books and movies, in contrast, I suppose, to documentaries about the subject, we know that you’re not supposed to interfere. Either that, or you are. According to the interweb, its absolutely necessary…

You Shouldn’t Have!

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Doug

Take a look around you. Unless you live under a bridge or in a refrigerator box, or both, it wouldn’t take but a moment or two to cast your vision onto something you have but don’t really need. And if you are checking my out website from under a bridge or in a refrigerator box, thanks for stopping by, figuratively…

Good, Better, Best!

Posted on September 22, 2018 by Doug

Way back when I was in the seventh grade, in what was then called junior high school, we had a mandatory class called “core”. To the best of my recollection, it combined social studies and English. Or quantum physics and Sanskrit. Or interpretive dance and the native language that involves weird clicking noises. It was, after all, 45 years ago…

#InMyFeelings Challenge? Just say NO!

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Doug

You may have recently stumbled across the latest internet challenge to go viral. It is called the #InMyFeelings challenge, apparently named after a song I don’t care to hear by an artist that I wouldn’t recognize if he gave me a root canal. Which, ironically, I’d sooner endure than listening to his music. To the blissfully uninformed, the #InMyFeelings Challenge…

It’s Robot Fightin’ Time!

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Doug

Disclaimer: I’m not entirely sure if some of the content on this post is trademarked, copywritten, registered, sacrosanct, or otherwise protected in any other sense. So I will plead ignorance, knowing that there isn’t a single court in the land that would rule differently! Did you know that before 2016, the Happy Birthday song was still under copyright, and thus…

At Last!

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Doug

Have you ever waited a really long time for something? Better asked, have you never waited a really long time for something? I would dare speak for everyone when I declare that we all have waited, are waiting, or will wait for what we may deem a seemingly interminable season. Granted, what we consider insufferable tarrying changes as we age,…

Windows OS, BSOD, and Rage- Why Bill Gates Is The Devil Incarnate

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Doug

Okay, perhaps Bill Gates is not the devil incarnate. But follow my line of reasoning, and perhaps agree that he is the root cause of technological anger and frustration throughout the universe, nay, even the Solar System. Bringing affordable and essentially limitless connectedness, information, resources, and cat videos aside, let me opine. And save your “first world probs” comments. Do…

Serving Size

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Doug

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there is a groundswell of unrest sweeping across this nation. “Thanks for that insightful observation, Captain Obvious”, you may rightfully be muttering to yourself. But I’m not referring to the contentious rhetoric and growing divide surrounding politics, protests in sports, bat guano crazy dictators with nukes, climate change, gender identity, or even pumpkin…

Don’t Eat The Hushpuppies!

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Doug

Perhaps you are reading this and wondering, possibly aloud to the bemusement of your fellow Starbucks patrons, “What are hushpuppies?” Maybe you are asking, if you have to scroll for more than a few seconds to get to your birth year on a dropdown website menu, “Why would I want to eat a sensible, comfortable shoe?” Or you’ve possibly taken great…

We Love Us Some Us.

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Doug

Harken back with me, if you will, to the days of yore. But before doing so, notice, especially fellow grammar nazis, that I used the correct spelling of “yore”. Although the less aged among you may find this hard to believe, there was a time before social media and blogs, reality television, digital photography, and “selfies”. Back in the day,…