So I've had a blog for 14 years and I've written 223 blog posts in that time. this averages out to 16 posts a year, or more than 1 a month. I wanted to be a writer, and someone told me I needed "experience" and "credentials". It just clicked today that I think >1 article a month counts?

Rebel Ridge on Netflix is the Rambo for 2024. Y'all need to watch it.

Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty Excel: the cup is January 2nd

So I went for a run this afternoon and the heat index was 101 and I was excited about the run. I like the heat. But lemme tell y'all: A run that should've taken me 45 minutes easily was a HARD 50. Whatever the heat does to you... It does much worse to the elderly. Check on your old folks.

The history of English is kinda like listening to a podcast about a bar fight but episode 1 starts with the birth of the bartender.

English actually makes a lot of sense if you study all of the history around how it became incrementally more chaotic starting in about 1100 C.E.

I just want my damned undergrad transcripts to show up in my grad school application, so I can hit submit, get rejected, and then fucking go on with my life and become a carpenter. But, like usual, technology seems to be in the way.

And the Cherokee fought for the Confederacy and were Democrats. So it's actually this kind of "pun" for them where they call Republicans "The North / cold-hearted ones"

It's a complex linguistic thing. In Cherokee, words can transition parts of speech very easily. warm is a verb, not an adjective. When it's expressed as a past tense, it can be an adjective. When past-tense-warm is a preposition it means South. The confederates were democrats.

By the way, the reason that Democrat gets associated with Warm is not ... Uhh .. a fun thing. The word for "South" is the past-tense of the verb "warm The Cherokee fought for the Confederacy. They became Democrats after the Civil War. So Republicans being cold/ from the north is... Opposite