To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
The only reason I’m not fabulously wealthy is I’m incredibly lazy. If I were more diligent in responding to my emails I could be rich beyond my wildest dreams. That’s saying a lot because being incredibly lazy affords me considerable time to dream wildly. Consider just one email that I recently received, which was only [...]
I hate spammers. I despise their penis-enlarging, breast-firming, diet-accelerating claptrap that overloads my email inbox. These cankers of electronic communications pollute the Internet with their effluvia. But even more than I hate spammers, I hate the incredibly stupid people who fall victim to them. I know it’s politically incorrect to call people stupid, but screw [...]
Do you know what is starting to annoy me? … Alright, alright; you’re getting to know me too well. I’ll correct that. … Do you know what is one of the very great many things that is starting to annoy me? Has this ever happened to you? You go to one of your favorite blogs. [...]
The Internet is an incredible invention. You have to admire its colossal power to spawn an embarrassment of riches in the global labor market. There is no doubt in my mind that we would have long ago entered a very deep recession – no, that’s wrong; it probably would have been a devastating economic depression, [...]
I don’t know why I hadn’t done the arithmetic before now, but, after renting several days’ worth of dedicated processing on a major university’s supercomputer, I just finished calculating the sum of all of the earnings that I’m going to make off the surefire””only the surefire ones, mind you””stock tips that have landed in my [...]
The exceptionally strong evidence indicating that all complex life on this planet is a result of evolution, not divine creation, is clear and irrefutable. After viewing the antics of politicians in legislatures, can any intelligent, rational human being doubt for even one moment that we share a common ancestry with apes? What’s not widely recognized [...]
I’ve got an idea for the makers of spam filters. They can have it for free. They should block all emails that include more than a certain percentage of misspelled words. When calculating this percentage, consider only the first few sentences. Ignore those nonsense paragraphs that junk mailers stuff at the end of an email [...]
I typically receive several e-mails a day that open with a question something along the lines of, “Is the lack of a university degree the only thing standing in the way of you getting a really great job?” Responding to each sender individually would be too time-consuming, so I’m publishing a open letter to them [...]