Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

Haven’t been posting a lot here (epic summer in progress…coming to an end shortly).  But I was able to grab some match footage from this weekend’s IDPA match at Lloyd’s WMA in Critteden, KY.  It wasn’t my best match, but I still learned a few things: Always have a stage plan.  This couldn’t come at…

About a month ago I attended a presentation by Ken Danford on Liberated Learners / North Star Teens.  Since then, I can’t get an idea out of my head: I’d love to be part of starting one of these in the Northern Kentucky / Greater Cincinnati area.  To be completely transparent, my motivations are three-fold: I…

I wrote about my thoughts on Sam Harris’ book Free Will in a post as few months back.  It troubled me at the time that his basic argument seemed to be that since we can’t know all option and control all inputs / our reactions them that it means we can’t control anything. In the…

School may be out for summer in many parts of the country, but there are stil plenty of lessons to be learned from this year’s political morass.  We’ve learned that the two party system is not actually a feature of our government.  We’ve learned that the two parties are actually private entities and can do whatever…

UPDATE: for those of you that clicked on the link and thought “TL;DR” (does anyone actually think in acronyms?), there is a dramatic reading that you can listen to. I spent the morning coffee time re-reading the “Grand Inquisitor” chapter in The Brothers Karamazov”. While many see it as a screed against the Catholic Church…

I wanted to get to posting something sooner, but had to leave for China about 10 hours after I got home last Sunday.  Actually this is earlier than it would have been otherwise courtesy of a seemingly monstrous weather system across the east coast which has delayed the last leg of my flight home for…

This post comes to you from seat 30D (yes…a middle aisle seat on a 767) of Delta flight 229 from Paris to Cincinnati. No, I didn’t spring for the crazy expensive expensive international wifi. Nope, they particular plane I am in is broken and awaiting a part so I decided to share some quick learnings…

From Seneca’s 22nd letter (hat tip to Tim Ferriss): Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long. Sums up what I find so intriguing about stoicism in one sentence. 

I shot an IDPA classifier this past weekend. It was a bit of a cluster.  I’ve been pretty busy so I had little time to prepare, much less practice, which resulted in me having to shoot my Glock 35 rather than the HK VP9 which I’ve been using as my match gun for the last…