Powerball Winning Odds and the Mathematically Challenged
Wish this conversation didn’t actually happen, but it did. <sigh> ME: Hmm, the Powerball Jackpot’s almost $600 mil? That’s pretty cool! I think I’ll enter a couple. What’s a few bucks, huh? Should be fun! CHAL: Well, that’s stupid. Play when the jackpot’s not too huge, then you have a better chance at winning. ME: How do you figure? Your [...]
Brain Dump – Thanksgiving 2012
Bet you that in her wildest dreams, Paula Broadwell never thought she’d make it to the cover of People magazine. And not just a secondary story line inset image, mind you, but the main cover feature. Way to go Paula! Speaking of which, this whole Petraeus mess provoked me back when this was all just starting to unfold to spit [...]
A Middle-Aged WAHD’s Guide to Playground Caregiver Cliques
“Honey, I’m pregnant!” Probably one of the shortest sentences in the world that can turn the hardiest of men into wide-eyed caricatures of deer in headlights. Unless that man happens to be in his early 40s and who, for a few years, has managed to pull off a dream work-at-home-wearing-whatever-he-darned-well-wants-to-wear lifestyle screwing around with Internet publishing and marketing, thinking all [...]
Why We Aren’t Happy
MARCEL PAGNOL: The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. REPUBLICANS: And your point is? DEMOCRATS: But did you see this crap they left for us to deal with, huh Marcel? Who [...]
The Mystery of the Existentialist Writer… or How to Catch People Cheating at Words With Friends (and Scrabble!)
This was written originally for publication in the Studio 30+ blog. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that at any given point in time, there is some meaningless totally unimportant question bouncing around in my psyche, distracting me enough from actually getting any seriously important stuff done. Yeah, “distracting” is a good word for it, since of course I can [...]
