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I have reached the point of being able to make a decent pizza crust from scratch. The trick hasn’t really been a matter of mixing a good dough recipe or spreading it out properly, but how to bake it properly. A crust that is baked all the way through is hard and too crunchy. But […]
This year was the most un-Christmas-like holiday I’ve ever had. We did nothing at all for Christmas, most of the family not arriving until later, and all of us too broke to buy gifts for anyone other than the kids. Then when the kids were here, all of my effort was directed toward feeding, entertaining, […]
When I was young, I was insulated from “rock and roll” music. My father strongly disliked it (and still does). More importantly, I grew up in a fundamentalist religion, and I was lead to believe that it was sinful. I just wasn’t exposed to it, and I was less-than-subtly discouraged from embracing it. However, I […]
Allow me to present the formula for creating a bad-ass film superhero (or super-villain). Step 1: Design a bad-ass costume, one that seems faintly suited to combat, one that tightly fits and augments the figure, and has a few high-tech gizmos. Add boots. Add a minimal mask that hides or obscures the area around the […]
Every now and then, people talk about pick-up artists and deplore the deceitfulness they perceive. These are generally people who have heard about the pick-up community and maybe read a little about it. They don’t really understand it, they don’t really believe it works, and they certainly feel they wouldn’t want the techniques to be […]
Once upon a time, I bought Pro Tools, which is software for recording and making music electronically. I spent a lot of money on it, and when I got it home, I discovered that it won’t even work with a sound card. (It can, with a piece of software that emulates an ASIO driver, but […]
I have photographed numerous bands on stage, and it took a while for me to develop the skill. This is a summary of what I’ve learned. I hope it will be useful to others who want to produce good photos of bands performing live on stage. There are three basic challenges to overcome: Bands Perform […]
In some ways, I have a strong sense for music, and I am fairly clueless in other ways. For example, there is always music in my head, running in the background, often unnoticed. I have fairly broad musical tastes. On the other hand, I usually don’t pay much attention to lyrics, and my memory is […]
Is the Constitution of the United States a meaningless document? The other day, I was driving down the highway and listening to NPR on the radio. On it was a discussion about re-integration of criminals after their incarcerations. The producers of the program were interviewing people, and one of them rather shyly admitted that he […]
I receive this question frequently when discussing CCW with new people, and it throws me every time. It comes from so far outside of my everyday thinking that I can’t come up with a spontaneous explanation that bridges the gap. However, the next time someone asks, I will have this answer ready: No, I’m not […]
