Well, this entry will be hard to write. It’s the tale of my very first severe crush, which happened my senior year of High School. It firmly cemented my Outsider status in my mind, exposed my vulnerable emotions which were crushed completely, and on top of all that, makes me look even more pathetic. First, …
I’ve been listening to a series of lectures by The Teaching Company entitled “Great Ideas of Philosophy,” and in a couple of lectures the Professor identifies a recurring Problem known as the “Brain in a Vat” problem. It has to do with the nature of Experience and the value we place on Events in our …
A short entry this time. I forgot to mention my truly first encounter with the opposite sex, which was very brief. I was about 10 years old. It was summer. I was hanging out at the public swimming pool all the time. Typically there was a girl there named Tandy who went to the same …
Shortly after I dropped out of Asbury College, I moved in with my extremely anxious, perpetually worried Granny Mabel. She tended to dote on me and bail me out of any bad situation I got into, which contributed to my laziness and lack of responsibility in later years. In any case, it was a depressing …
In almost every regard, when I go out in public, I have the appearance of a homeless person. My brown hair is unkempt because I rarely comb it, even after I get out of the shower. I have hazel eyes. My chin is covered by a perpetually scraggly beard, since because of lack of hormones …
Today I will institute a another series: Nostalgia, or fond rememberings of the past. The first thing I would like to talk about is an activity I was fascinated with up until I graduated High School. That activity was creating computerized animation, of all kinds. I used to be quite prolific at it, although not …