Girl Asks Rick And Morty’s Co-Author How To Cope With Depression, Does Not Expect His Response Dark thoughts will echo off the walls of your skull, they will distort and magnify. When you open your mouth (or an anonymous journal or blog or sketchpad), these thoughts go out. They’ll be back but you gotta get […]
Category Archives: my so called life
Back from the garbage
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Lessons learned: Digitalocean or another cloud hosting service is the way to go, unless you don’t want to learn how servers work, in which case you’ll get ripped off. Following from the above, you can’t know for sure you’re safe enough from hacking, unless you have backend control. If you don’t, again, you’ll get ripped […]
And that is the end of me clearing the draft post backlog.
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Almost didn’t renew hosting this time, but it seems i can justify it for self-employment purposes (and it qualifies for the Great Canadian Writeoff). So i had a bunch of draft posts that i wasn’t quite motivated to finish.
Happiness is not so simple
Friday, August 7, 2015
“Positive Attitude” Bullshit: On the dangers of “radical self-love” Radical self-love gurus do not tend to promote or even really engage in discussions on privilege or the disadvantages people are born into; that shit would undermine the cause of “changing yourself, not the system.”
The third Red Noise album
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
mostly done on the night of February 28, 2015. https://soundcloud.com/red_noise/sets/apropos-of-nothing
Depressing economics articles
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Work in the Age of Anxiety => The 40-Year Slump […]In 1974, wages fell by 2.1 percent and median household income shrunk by $1,500. To be sure, it was a year of mild recession, but the nation had experienced five previous downturns during its 25-year run of prosperity without seeing wages come down. What no […]
introversion
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Revenge of the Introvert [Researchers] found that having “an orientation inconsistent with societal values” is a risk factor for poor mental health. The findings support what the researchers call the personality-culture clash hypothesis: “Psychological adjustment depends on the degree of match between personality and the values of surrounding society.” To the extent that introverts feel […]
obvious when you think about it
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Refusing to apologize can have psychological benefits (and we issue no mea culpa for this research finding) Despite an understanding of the perception and consequences of apologies for their recipients, little is known about the consequences of interpersonal apologies, or their denial, for the offending actor. In two empirical studies, we examined the unexplored psychological […]
this was part of my childhood…
Friday, November 2, 2012
Welcome to OMNI Magazine Collection OMNI was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction. The first issue was published in October 1978, the last in Winter 1995, with an internet version lasting until 1998. (my childhood wasn’t […]
