Author: RTNM

Random Thoughts from a Nonlinear Mind: Volume 2: The Athena Chapters, Chapter Fourteen: The Mall Walker! or Six Years Gone…(working title) or Just Do It!: Reflections on my Last Concert or Notes for a TED Talk I Will Never be Invited to Give It was like somebody laid hands on me. Bob Dylan, Nobel Lecture […]

A Story About A Vacuum Cleaner Susie Pennington bounced up the stairs to the second floor of her house. She looked at Melvin, the stuffed octopus that followed her everywhere, and said: “What do you think, is Piper going to be excited?” Melvin didn’t respond; he just flopped around in Susie’s right arm. “I’ll bet […]

The Nobel Prize for physics was announced the other day.  I was shocked when I heard who the winners were.  Was it because I didn’t think Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez didn’t deserve the award?  Not at all, my issue is with the timing of the announcement. Penrose, Genzel, and Ghez were recognized […]

He saw her, she couldn’t have known it, but he was eyeing her the entire time.  His giant sunglasses, the kind old people wear after cataract surgery, disguised his intent.  Or course, he never had any such surgery, but Buford Lister was always ready to take any advantage, any edge, he could muster. She’s got […]

All I know is if I ever again react to a female like I did when I met her, I am running as fast as I can in the opposite direction. Buford Lister (personal communication) It took me over 9 years to finish my book about the punk rocker chick with the sunburst Telecaster.   A […]

Random Thoughts from a Nonlinear Mind: Volume 2: The Athena Chapters, Chapter Thirteen: Collatz   The Muses are fickle, nasty little figments.  They have their own agenda, and they make their own schedule. The Plumber to Buford Lister after a couple of months of spinning their wheels.   In 1937 a German mathematician named Lothar […]

2020 hasn’t been the best of years, has it?  I know that lots of people would like to hit the reset button and start over at the end of 2019.  I am in that camp.  It has been rotten.  Life has been coming at me fast with no warning.  I am tired. I guess it […]

Here is another video from The WRB Project.  As always, the music is original.  The video was shot in one take with a budget of zero.  Enjoy! [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnTSiEdWOw8[/embedyt]        

Random Thoughts from a Nonlinear Mind: Volume 2: The Athena Chapters, Chapter Twelve: Gellhorn   Have you noticed how many times I have said that chapter such and such is the last essay in this volume?  I have done that three or four times, at least.  In my mind, it has been a lot worse.  […]

Random Thoughts from a Nonlinear Mind: Volume 2: The Athena Chapters, Chapter Eleven: Who the H-E-Double-Toothpicks is John Bardeen?   I had a dream.  I know it was a dream because what happened couldn’t possibly be true.  I found myself in a world where people loved their children more than they hated those who didn’t […]