I just stumbled upon this YouTube star, Coyote Peterson. He is 100% out of his mind. His fame is predicated upon getting stung by the most painful insect stings on…

I just yelled, "Wow!" Someone made a great catch. And those magical moments are what make baseball so great. In defense of soccer, you'll hear, "There's action the whole time!"…

Main Cabin 1 is boarding now. I'm in "basic". You may have seen me refer to cattle in my previous post. That is me. Sadly, I have a middle seat…

It's almost boarding time, and people are lined up in anticipation to board. The queues stretch across the whole gate area, in two directions! Why? There are zone assignments—normally 1-9,…

I don't know if I've written a post like this yet. Who cares? You probably don't remember, either. Sitting here at DCA, I can see the Capitol Building through the…

I started writing this blog post an airport, Louis Armstrong International Airport (MSY, from Moisant Stock Yards—history here). Now, I'm at another airport, Ronald Reagan International Airport (DCA—D.C. airport,  I…

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,…