A Thought: On the Importance of Doors

Building castles around the heart is important, but you've got to remember to put a door, else you'll starve the soul. Read more!

::Grinds teeth::

As a person in a terminal Master's program with nearly as many credit and lab requirements as a Ph.D. program, I have come to loathe the feeling I get every time someone in a doctorate field asks, "Why aren't you going for your Ph.D.?" or someone in another, far less intensive Master's program asks what's taking me so long.

You people are paying for my inevitable dental bills. Read more!

A Thought: On Unjust Veneration

While loss of life is always tragic, and to die young even more so, those who die as a result of their own foolish action should be remembered, at best, as cautionary tales, not venerated as heroes.
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A Thought: On the Responsibility of Change

I don't care for statements like, "Money changes people," or, "Power corrupts." They remove all responsibility from the person changing for the subsequent change.

A more accurate statement would be that people with money or power change. Nothing outside ourselves can force a particular change upon us. While we are often faced with situations which require adaptation, we always have a choice in how we are changed by them and rarely are the changes we make irreversible. Read more!

A Thought: On the Unbearable Burden of Pants

Did you ever find out that you had to do something and just think to yourself, "I feel like I've met my pants-wearing quota for the day?" Read more!

A Thought: On Relative Time

At what point in my life did things go so horribly awry that I now consider 9:30am a late morning appointment? Read more!

A Thought: On the Necessity of Primary Sources

I treat arguments over information found on the internet, be they scientific, political or otherwise, the same way I do those about religion or The Constitution.

If you only have a passing familiarity with the primary source, I'm not likely to give it much time or credence. Read more!

A Thought: On Keeping Around the Better Parts

If someone's been in your life for the better part of a decade or more and you still consider them one of the better parts, chances are, they're worth keeping around. Read more!

eBay...

Because it isn't just in games that you should get to scream, "Damn it! Just put a buy it now button!" at the idiots who think that their real life greys are going to start a bidding war. Read more!

A Thought: On the Burden of Self-Awareness

It is not enough to recognize your flaws. Once you've done so, you have a responsibility to do everything you can to rectify them.

It may be a battle that lasts a lifetime, but it will be one that is always worth fighting. Read more!