I am…PhoneBoy

​I’m not even sure I should post this. That said, I’ve definitely posted my share of “too much information” posts over the years and this one is no different. However, attempting to explain what’s on my mind helps me to make sense of things, and what I’m about to explain will probably make no sense…

It seems there are so many photos being taken these days, but what becomes of them? They’re probably sitting somewhere on a hard drive that will get bit rot. They might get shared on a social network or three, but that’s it. Meanwhile, my employer is just about to finish their new building in Tel…

From Watching the Election from The Post-Truth Future: In China, that foundation of reality is eroded alongside trust in institutions previously tasked with upholding the truth. Contrary to popular sentiment in the US, Chinese readers don’t blindly trust the state-run media. Rather, they distrust it so much that they don’t trust any form of media,…

From At least 42 percent of Pierce voters had turned in ballots by Saturday: Statewide, as of Friday, about 1.7 million of the more than 4.2 million ballots sent had been returned by mail or drop box.>> Record turnout for the state came during the 2008 election, when 84.6 percent of voters participated. In 2012,…

Many people I know into tech are not into sports. At all. In fact, they tend to refer to all sports collectively as sportsball: Sportsball…is an Internet slang term used to describe any competitive sport that revolves around a ball, particularly the ones that end with the suffix “-ball” in their names, such as baseball,…

I seem to have hit a bit of a wall in terms of my creative endeavors. Maybe all those reports I’m writing for work lately have a lot to do with this. Maybe it’s all the time in shiny metal tubes. Not entirely sure. But when your creative pursuits involve more than just writing, you…

As part of a Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis, and just generally getting older, I have to give regular samples of my blood so I can be evaluated for many things. This time around, I got it in just under the expiration of the orders, about three months past when I should have. It resulted in…

From All Human Systems Are Enormous Trash Fires So if you’re wondering why the particular system you’re in is always such an enormous trash fire, the answer is because there’s no other way for it to be. No other place is going to be any less of an enormous trash fire. Everything is ablaze, always…

In 2004, I wrote a post about picking the lesser of two evils, wherein I articulated some support for Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik. I still like this quote from an interview he did (though I can’t find the original reference): “If you vote for the lesser of two evils, and your candidate wins,…

I have to admit I’ve been jealous of the handful of people who have verified accounts on Twitter. I actually created an account that ultimately became verified, the one for Check Point Software. That was a while back and I don’t post from it very often, being a corporate account and all that. Recently, Twitter…