Daily Life Sociology

My schadenfreude cackle

I have this horrible social tick.  I don’t know how it originated, but I’ve noticed that it’s happened more often with every passing year.  I laugh with an almost villainous glee whenever I see something happen to someone else that I wouldn’t normally want to happen to me.  It always happens when I’m caught up in competition.  For example, I’ll watch as the server on a opposing doubles tennis team accidentally serve the ball at…

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Daily Life Humorous

A Short Fairy Tale

“What would you think of a woman that approached you first or asked you out?” As seen in this Craig’s list post by a female inquiring into the mind of the males of her species. I thought to myself, “Is she living her life in some faraway magical place where psychedelic mushrooms abound?” She might as well ask what I would do if I stumbled upon a Leprechaun with his pants around his ankles. I…

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Daily Life

Bonnets, bonnets . . . everywhere!

What would prompt one to care? Every spring the Bluebonnets will bloom along the side of the road and fields mainly on the eastern portion of Texas. If we have especially fair amount of rain, the fields will be carpeted in a spectacular violet. This inevitably bring cars parked on the side of the road and families taking pictures of their little ones amongst the Bluebonnet blooms. The family generally consist of a young couple…

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Geek culture Humorous Sociology

“Pointy Eared Whore Theory”

8. Do not dress up as an elf. Ever. This is just a personal bias of mine. Okay, everyone who has hung out with me in person knows this story, but for the rest of you: Years ago I developed the Pointy Eared Whore Theory. Over a lifetime attending cons and other events featuring people dressing up as characters from fantasy and science fiction, I noticed a disturbing trend. The ones with really good, high…

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Humorous Random Rants

Women, weight and idiocy

I cribbed this off “I Will Teach You to Be Rich“, but it was so mindlessly stupid that I’m unable to hold myself back. I’m about to be hated by every woman who reads this for what I’m about to say. The article in question comes from the New York Times. It stated than an initial U. of Pennsylvania survey points to the possibility that some women in the U.S. may be going to their…

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