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You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All

Posted on 11/26/2022 in misc • Tagged with Books, Internet

The game of life is literally a game now, and you are not winning.

Overthinking a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Posted on 11/25/2022 in misc • Tagged with Thanksgiving, TV

I took notes while watching the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Special

Twitter was probably a bad idea

Posted on 11/20/2022 in misc • Tagged with Internet

Some thoughts on what the end of Twitter means.

Lewis Ginter Christmas Lights 2022

Posted on 11/19/2022 in misc • Tagged with Virginia, Richmond, Life

Celebrating my birthday...like the middle-aged dude that I am

I can't be 55

Posted on 11/18/2022 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Life

I don't feel 55....

WTF is Mastodon

Posted on 11/05/2022 in misc • Tagged with Internet

All the cool kids are doing Intro to Mastodon posts, so here is mine.

The church of rock and roll

Posted on 11/03/2022 in misc • Tagged with Music

The return of live, loud and sweaty rock and roll to my life

Is it time to quit Twitter

Posted on 10/23/2022 in misc • Tagged with Internet, Twitter, Facebook

Is it time to quit Twitter?

2022 Purdue Trip

Posted on 10/20/2022 in misc • Tagged with Purdue, travel

Back home again in Indiana...

Camping at Natural Chimneys Park

Posted on 10/10/2022 in misc • Tagged with Camping, Hiking, Aliner-Ascape, Virginia

24 years in Virginia and I really visited the Shenandoah Valley for the first time this weekend

Acadia National Park Photo Album

Posted on 09/25/2022 in misc • Tagged with Camping, Hiking, Aliner-Ascape, Acadia

Acadia National Park is AMaineZing..

Acadia is AMaineZing Part 2

Posted on 09/23/2022 in misc • Tagged with Camping, Hiking, Aliner-Ascape, Acadia

Acadia National Park is AMaineZing..

Acadia is AMaineZing

Posted on 09/19/2022 in misc • Tagged with Camping, Hiking, Aliner-Ascape, Acadia

Acadia National Park is AMaineZing..

What was the book for you

Posted on 08/30/2022 in misc • Tagged with Books

What was the book that made you a lifelong reader?

A Four Brewery Day

Posted on 08/28/2022 in misc • Tagged with North_Carolina, Camping, Hiking, Aliner-Ascape, food, travel

If you visited 4 breweries in a single afternoon odds are you had a good day

Educated

Posted on 08/23/2022 in misc • Tagged with Books

Her PhD is not a testament to homeschooling

Virginia Beach 2022

Posted on 08/23/2022 in misc • Tagged with Virginia, Camping, Hiking, Aliner-Ascape

Beach Camping is best camping

Return to Cave Mountain Lake Campground

Posted on 08/17/2022 in misc • Tagged with Virginia, Camping, Hiking, Aliner-Ascape

Cave Mountain Lake has become one of our favorite campgrounds

Mid-Summer 2022 Music Update

Posted on 07/30/2022 in misc • Tagged with Music

I haven't written about music in a while...

Long Weekend in Boone North Carolina

Posted on 07/20/2022 in misc • Tagged with North_Carolina, Camping, Hiking, Aliner-Ascape

Weekend in Boone, complete with a peeping tom and catcalls

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