https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6vEqhOh8E0 I am absolutely floored by the new trailer for Ready Player One. I was already excited for this movie before seeing this trailer. Now I am not only excited for the entertainment value, but the cultural significance of this movie. This movie is going to be extremely fucking relevant to the people of my… Continue reading Ready Player One, a Call to Arms
I have had to wake up in the mornings with no assistance since middle school. I am very well acquainted with the snooze button and having my REM cycle interrupted. But after years of practice getting up in the morning is relatively easy for me now. Below I share the tricks that have worked for… Continue reading How I Wake Up in the Morning
A while ago, I listened to an Invisibilia podcast about a remote tribe that experiences an emotion that has no translation. It's called liget, and it can best be described as a feeling of 'high voltage'. To this tribe, this emotion was an integral part of the human experience. As English speakers, we know what… Continue reading The Emotion of Liget
Alternately "How to Be Polite when Using a Trashcan" I am not writing this because I think I am any better than anyone else in terms of Trashcan etiquette. I violate the below guidelines as often as anyone. They are simply my thoughts on what a Trashcan etiquette should be. This etiquette applies to the… Continue reading Trashcan Etiquette
All airplanes became smoke free by the end of the 1990s. It has been 27 years since then. There are people nearly 30 years old who never even lived in a world where smoking was allowed on airplanes. I am 27 years old. I have been flying since I was 4, and I have never,… Continue reading The ‘No Smoking’ Sign
I recently encountered a situation where I would have expected that an 'Action' game and an 'Adventure' game would be distinct categories, with their differences recognized and well known. Sadly these terms have become so often misused, or worse used interchangeably, that the two terms seem to mean the same thing. The distinction of these… Continue reading The Difference Between Action and Adventure
An exercise in verbalizing a facet of my personal philosophy. Originally written April 14th, 2015. An ongoing quest in my life is to find out what I believe in. It’s not a quest with any end-goal, I’ll never ‘figure it out’, but the attempt makes me feel closer to myself and helps me learn why… Continue reading How I Believe
In Support of Followers There is a huge stigma attached to the idea of being a ‘follower’. We hear follower and instantly think of sheep. A follower is blind. Someone who does what is told, someone who accepts without question. There is such a stigma that even when people don’t consider themselves leaders, they will… Continue reading The Support Class Human
I like to roadtrip a lot. My car Mort has been completely across the country several times, and has seen most US states. Over my years of roadtripping I have acumulated some knowledge which i hope can be helpful to would be roadtrippers. Most of it is common knowledge, but, you know, some people have… Continue reading Kersti’s Roadtrip Guide
The standard route of science and spirituality in attempting to find answers to the big questions has been very limited, in my opinion. We strive to attain truths about how we should live our lives, but in doing so we cling to the idea that there is only one True answer to every question. We… Continue reading Striving for Truth: The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
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