Monday Fun Facts
1. I am in Kansas! 2. Kansas is not as flat as you think it is. 3. I am going to Manhattan, Kansas this evening, which I’m afraid will be very dull. It was really fun when I was there in 1987. I was an...
View ArticleBridge to the Fall
Quick update here to observe the passing of the theme here at StoreyTelling as this incarnation of the blog steams toward its fourth anniversary to be achieved in October. I’m going to more or less let...
View ArticleBlue Pyramid Flooded!
Welcome everyone! Apparently today is the biggest day for traffic at the BP since May 2008. And it’s only midday. Not sure exactly what’s going on, but I’m not going to complain. Hope everyone gets...
View ArticleOn Superstition
One of my debaters asked me last weekend whether I was superstitious. It was a good question. I reflexively answered that I wasn’t, but then he started talking about debate superstitions about writing...
View ArticleA Thought
I don’t think there’s a more devastating or demoralizing conviction a person can have than that their best years are behind them. People are extremely adaptable. They will go through almost any...
View ArticleToo Much Space
My soul hurts today. I wonder whether YouTube or this blog will last longer. One would think that by the time this question needed answering, the answer wouldn’t much matter. But then again, there are...
View Article1,276
Well, for all my talk yesterday about 1,277 books, I found an inadvertent duplicate in the list that had to be edited out. So it’s actually 1,276 books on the newly updated Book List. You should still...
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Follow-Up: No Effects of Aging
A couple days ago, I posted at length about jobs and where they’re going and the hidden unemployment rate. I promised to hop back onto the BLS website, a wealth of statistical information about our...
View ArticleMay is the Worst
I just spent a fair bit of time re-reading my posts from past Mays on this blog. There are five years’ worth of them and they ain’t pretty. Actually, some of them are kind of pretty; I think a lot of...
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Trains and Translation Twenty Thirteen Tour
I’ve changed the theme around these parts to match the above poster for my upcoming summer travel plans. I’m not in love with the title, but I like all the T’s and I really like the imagery and all...
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No Jobs in January: A Glance at Seasonal Adjustment of Unemployment
I was curious to analyze the seasonal adjustment data after the last post I made about unemployment data and under-reporting from 2007-2013. Basically, seasonal adjustment follows a similar shape every...
View ArticlePorch Storm
He sits out on the high rickety wood porch, consuming pages like nutrients long missing from his diet. The movers, the cleaners, the gas company, everybody’s late, everybody’s nice. Except the moving...
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Almost Like Real Life
So a lot has been made lately of Facebook putting an overly positive spin on things, shifting our perspective and making us seem and act happier than we actually are. I think this is true, but largely...
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Unemployment Remains Stable… at Double Reported Figure
Was going to post a longer thing about the nature of cameras and privacy and all the Rices from Rutgers that get rung up by audio-visual equipment, but that’ll keep for now, especially since everyone...
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It Doesn’t Really Snow Here
A quick click of the refresh button will show you some new imagery around here. To review, here was the old header: Header of this blog, 1 October through 10 November 2014. And here is the new: Header...
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My Public Ballot, 2014 Louisiana Run-Off Edition
One of many reasons not to vote for Mary Landrieu. This is probably the most inconsequential election I’ve ever taken part in, especially given that my primary act was to abstain from the headline race...
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5 Days Out: A Brief Photo Retrospective from Albuquerque
It is five days before perhaps my favorite night of the year and worth putting a little visual element to the experience of preparing for putting up one of the largest luminaria displays in the city...
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It’s 2015 and You are Alive
There’s a lot going on. There always is. Despite the efforts of various media outlets, phone applications, and the narrative brain to confine your existence to a narrow set of coherent and perfectly...
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Getting Closer Every Day
Think these close games aren’t exciting the Mariners? Ten days ago, I wrote this post about how close most games have been for the Seattle Mariners during the 2015 season. I focused on closeness...
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Several Counter-Intuitive Things I’m Thinking Today
If you don’t post a picture on social media, people won’t know what your post is about! It’s gonna be roundup-style today, kids. The loose thread tying it together is that I’m thinking things I think...
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