discardia

Earth day 2008 hits us again today. And it reminds us just how complex an idea can be for a large group of individuals. We are told so many conflicting things about the environment and what we need to do to help, that most of us are embracing the wrong ideas. The Green […]

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After my post the other day about what it means to be a gamer and have a sense of community, something got stuck in my craw. I could not stop thinking about what it means for me to be a part of a gaming community. It means giving and gaining something from the […]

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They fill a hole in your core you didn’t know you had
They make you a better person, whether you like it or not
They love you for just being a parent, no other reason needed

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Tomorrow marks another year of my life. Not quite my third decade, but pretty dang close. Close enough that I can insert a coin into the mounted silver binoculars on the birthday precipice (cotton candy and souvenirs shop off to the left, bathrooms to the right) and see thirty quickly approaching off the […]

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But who isn’t?
I mean seriously… we are, by nature, selfish creatures. Often the ends always are justified by the means. Unless you are looking for a felony or to burn delightedly in hell, most of the time, it really is not that big of a deal. Because, again, by nature, […]

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…is kind of freaking me out a little. Where is my comforting green, stylized mermaid logo?
STOP FUCKING WITH MY CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED WORLDVIEW, STARBUCKS!
We “users” have become emotionally and psychologically dependent upon your “product” which in all senses of the term, is “addictive”. As addicts, we appreciate continuity from our enablers (you, Starbucks Corp.), […]

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I drew a key distinction between the Traveling Salesman problem and my own life.

I hate traveling.
And I hate optimization of my traveling.

Takes me back to school, working on the TSP and grinding my teeth, because after I solved one problem, I still had to do all the other odd number problems on Pages 253, 254, […]

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Seriously, why is it, when I want to use a word that means a very precise thing, I can’t seem to recall it?
I will have it on the tip of my proverbial tongue, but instead I have to ramble through some sort of out of the way method to get to the concept I am […]

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