
Hi there, I am a computer programmer by trade an artist by passion. I mostly draw and paint and I tell a mean story but I type like shit
My Latest Posts
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- Off The Beaten PathWhat are your top 10 travel destinations? Adventure happens when least expected. Making the most of a boring place. If everything went according to plan while traveling, what stories will we have to tell?
- So RelevantWhat is your favorite quote? One of my all-time favorite books is it’s a Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. In this book he explores much of the thinking behind a cult, and various conspiracy theories. The following quote has great… Read more: So Relevant
- Pot ShotWhat’s a skill you consider basic, that most people don’t actually know how to do? I just made a small purchase of 9.20. Quick calculation and I gave the clerk an additional dollar so he didn’t have to give me any… Read more: Pot Shot
- Page OneDo you think everything happens for a reason? I usually screw up Page One of a sketch book. These are two Dark Eyed Juncos who hang out in our yard.
- My Reasons For Writing ThisDo you think everything happens for a reason? I think the saying everything happens for a reason is something we repeat out of habit, without giving it much thought. Certainly, some things happen for a reason, but once you introduced the… Read more: My Reasons For Writing This
- Like A Water Color In The RainWhat’s a song lyric that has stuck with you forever? The first time you are infatuated with a girl it sticks with you for a long time. It was summer vacation and I hadn’t seen her for weeks and there she… Read more: Like A Water Color In The Rain
- RotkappchenIf you could rewrite any book’s ending, which one would you choose? The ending of Little Red Riding Hood depends on whether you read the original tragic version or the famous happy version: the Charles Perrault version ends with the wolf eating the girl and no… Read more: Rotkappchen
- Is He Dead YetWhat’s your biggest dream? An Old Russian Joke I know you were thinking it. When I was a kid, I had this recurring dream that took place under a bridge where a stream flowed. Under that bridge stood a wolf or… Read more: Is He Dead Yet
- A Tuesday Morning in MarchWhat’s a promise you made to yourself that you’ve actually kept? I recently moved out of state for the first time in my life. I didn’t like the habits I was getting into and I was starting to put on a… Read more: A Tuesday Morning in March
- Vegan Spider PieIf you could have dinner with any fictional character, who would it be? It’d be cool to have dinner with Calvin and Hobbes. I’d bring Hobbs a couple cans of tuna and I would make Calvin some vegan spider pie. He… Read more: Vegan Spider Pie
- Clean ShavenWhat is the best purchase you have ever made? 1. Razor – One of the best purchase I ever made was a razor I bought in Mainz. Naturally I needed to shave. But that purchase was special as I confidently walked… Read more: Clean Shaven
- Garbage ManWhat’s a piece of technology you’re convinced will exist in 20 years? When I was a kid, I was taught to fear the garbageman mostly because they were black. Now I almost consider them societal treasures. I am willing to bet… Read more: Garbage Man
- OrdnungswidrigkeitsverfahrenWhat’s the funniest misunderstanding you’ve ever been part of? Well, I was not part of it, but this happened today in Germany. A passenger on a train passing over a railway bridge spotted a woman wearing a mermaid costume swimming in… Read more: Ordnungswidrigkeitsverfahren
- When Dinosaurs Walked The EarthWhat app eats up most of your free time — and do you even feel bad about it? Mapquest OK, I’m being a little hyperbolic here, but this was the early days of MapQuest. You looked up your starting point and… Read more: When Dinosaurs Walked The Earth
- Als ich noch ein Kind warWhat’s a movie or book that inspired you to travel? I think travel inspired me to travel. The only experience I can remember is being a young kid and I was watching either a baseball or a football game that took… Read more: Als ich noch ein Kind war
- Maximize Shareholder WealthIf you could erase one trend from history, what would it be? The greed and gluttony of the eighties are a reminder of who we are as individuals. I was in grad school during this era, and the the lessons from… Read more: Maximize Shareholder Wealth
- The Expanding Grey DotWhich outdated technology do you miss the most, and why? It is late at night the television plays no longer. on comes a patriotic ballad until tomorrow when the grey dot appears expands slowing into four channels of fuzzy black and… Read more: The Expanding Grey Dot
- Of Mergers and AccusationsWhat is the best excuse you have heard lately? I’ll go with the most recent excuse. 10 hour flight from Germany and there’s another plane at our gate. And nobody knows why.
- Some of us Are Destined to be IdiotsDo you think we’re shaped more by our experiences or by who we are? Freestanding Ink Jets in upstate New York was the king of thehill for a long time in this once prospering town. The engineers at this company could be brilliant having invented hardware components, only allowing some other high-tech giants to… Read more: Some of us Are Destined to be Idiots
- Animal DreamsIf you had to be an animal for a week, which one would you be and why? I have been an activist for animals most of my life. Not just dogs and cats. but all animals. I eat no animal products… Read more: Animal Dreams
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