andyortlieb

A friendship built on a foundation of egocentric manipulation? No thank you.

I have the best success using a towel snap against flies.

Sometimes I think I don't even hit them but it stuns them so they fall to the floor.

There is always an element of luck, but we do have to be prepared to leverage that luck. Thanks for sharing!

If you exist you are not underqualified! I want to hear everyone's version of the human experience and making things work in our societies.

If you aren't satisfied with where you're at, it may put things in perspectivefor other readers just as much as the earlier portions of someone else's story who is pleased with their career progress.

I recently heard an idea that "success is a lagging indicator". You cannot know that you are not currently on a path to success.

I guess that's probably easier than learning how to wipe your ass.

I don't know how to contribute but I'm looking forward to following the insights here. I desperately need to become more intentional in my life and fix up my default behaviors especially with my Internet habits.

That sounds cool fun and easy but armed and untrained and undisciplined nut jobs crawling from the woodwork is not going to be a clean finish for anyone involved. Obviously this isn't meant to be a deterrent for the justice system... but we're working on a different tier here. It's not going to be high profile business and agencies fighting each other. It's going to be normal working people being attacked by deranged wing nuts and always by surprise, because there will be no centcom for them.

So, if you think you're going to be prepared for an outcome like this, I do wonder what you're packing.

So the year of the Linux desktop is finally happening

I've had 2 multiple day power outages in the Milwaukee area, and 4 or 5 shorter ones over the past few years. It literally never used to happen.

What is a ghoul anyway

I'm surprised he's allowing Disney tickets.