First: Ask your econ PhD colleague for some basic buzzwords and sentences. Second: Let her do most of the talking. Third: Bombard people with your bizarre work history so that…

I sort of like writing a lot of blog posts at once, but that undermines the "daily" notion, doesn't it? So I think I will start really trying to do…

What I bought today: One pound of salami A block of Swiss cheese Two pounds of sausage A bag of cashews 8 small cans of tomato sauce Olive oil 10…

One of my favorite games of late is Slay The Spire, a brutishly difficult deckbuilding roguelike (don't fret if those words mean nothing to you—you'll still understand the post). Sadly,…

Seven is permanently in our cultural consciousness. It's the most common "lucky" number, it was my Papa's favorite number, and it's a staple of obnoxious kids who say random stuff…

One cool thing I learned at work: If you forget to do something, you're going to stay late. (I forgot to do something and stayed late, on Friday of all…

How does a being that exists for, at most, 120 or so years, cope with—well, a number of things? Here are some: The gaping maw of the universe has been…

What is listening to music like for the musically-illiterate? Every cascade of notes appear to me in a series of numbers—the third, to the fifth, to the sharp four, back…

What a lovely day it's been. I worked from home, just because. I spent a lot of time on our screened-in porch, because why not? It was a lovely day,…

I'm doing more and more at MRU with each passing day. I need to have our brand-new monthly email campaign finished by end-of-day tomorrow; today was the first day I…