Inside Doug's Head

It is never too late to become wise.

One would be well advised to not take personal advice from random strangers on the internet, particularly in the areas of health, career, and relationships. Especially if the stranger has a book for sale on their website, or has ever done a TED Talk. The advice will always be, cancer, quit your job, abandon your …

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Picture this: you are walking along on a sidewalk, path, or trail, and some random person is approaching you from the opposite direction. I call them randos, randoes. Whatever; a person selected from the group of other people, many of whom you don’t know or like. In set notation, {person: people who are not you}.

An encounter with orcs. Last night, as I was walking home from a modest outing in downtown Sunnyvale, the home of Buffy’s hellmouth, I witnessed a homeless person, formerly known as filthy vagrants, hanging around the west side entrance (a dead end world), waiting for someone to open the gate and let them in so …

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