Category: Misc

Why are you Looking at me that Way? I have experienced some strange things during my nearly 58 years, and if I were to rank those experiences on some sort of Scale of the Bizarre, I would put Disjunctive Cognition near the top.  There is a very good chance you have also experienced this phenomenon […]

Medusa by The WRB Project This post is slightly different than those that have come before, this one is in multimedia form.  I wrote, directed, shot, edited, and produced the following music video.  We did everything in one take with a budget of zero. I am making a short film called Modern Day Medusas.  The […]

Random Thoughts from a Nonlinear Mind: Volume 2: The Athena Chapters, Chapter Four: Hey There Athena Preface A Preface, seriously?  Do I really need to include a Preface in any essay, especially this one, or have I reached new heights when it comes to absurdity?  I will let out a little sigh as I tell […]

Sidd Finch, what can I say… you’ve never heard of him, have you?  What if I told you that the sports world stopped in its tracks in April 1985, and what if I told you it was because of The Mighty Sidd Finch.  Buckle up, this is one of my favorite stories. Sidd Finch, Harvard […]

Random Thoughts from a Nonlinear Mind: Volume 2: The Athena Chapters, Chapter Three: Siskel & Ebert and Top 10 Lists about This & That and Such & Such: A Short Essay with a Relatively Long Title about a few of my Favorite Things   In their Best of 1985 show, Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert […]

A Few Choice Words The other day, Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) went on television to put the smackdown on young people who are not practicing social distancing.  She made the point that “asymmetric” people are spreaders of COVID-19, the virus that is doing so much damage worldwide.  It is clear she meant to say “asymptomatic.”  […]

Random Thoughts from a Nonlinear Mind, Volume 2 The Athena Chapters, Chapter Two: Can you Hear me now? The End of One Long Strange Trip (and what a long, strange trip it’s been)   I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is […]

Boaty McBoatface Not long ago, I came across a piece of news that severely tickled my funny bone.  It was my kind of story, a tale that doesn’t come across my desk nearly as often as I would like. A few years back, England built a new scientific research vessel, a fantastic ship designed to […]

Random Thoughts From a Nonlinear Mind, Volume 2: The Athena Chapters, Chapter One: Athena From Athens   I am sure that every mom in this country learns early on to check the pockets of her kid’s clothes when she is doing laundry.  I am confident that the same holds for all the dads out there, […]

Quin Houff is Causing Problems! This is a short post about the relationship between practice times and average green flag speeds for drivers in The NASCAR Cup Series.  The question is: Do practice times translate to the race?  Can you predict how fast a car will be during the race based on 10 lap practice […]