In 1959 a Swiss psychologist, Marie-Louisa von Franz, noticed the increasing trend in people who mature physically but remain psychologically stunted, especially among the male population of the western world. She coined the term for these people ‘eternal child’, today we call it the man child. It’s not unusual for the man child to live …
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Textual Encoding of Numbers
I always felt like there should be a way to read numbers like we read words and have them make sense and easy to remember. Every now and then, when I had some free time, I’d try to come with a method to do so. I tried assigning a consonant and a vowel to each …
Human Evolution
There seems to be two distinct evolutionary variations of human beings emerging, a distinct fork in the human evolutionary road too profound to be attributed to simple cultural or generational differences. One variation that is emotionally driven and one that is rationally driven. These aren’t matters of maturity or ignorance like we so often want …
Inferior Humanity
I remember the feeling years ago when I realized that the government, at all levels, is nothing more than a common criminal gang writ large. I also remember the realization that the global financial markets are fraudulent, creating counterfeit money out of thin air and laundering it by loaning it out. Two revelations that changed …
Environmental Religion
When I was a child growing up in the 60s and 70s, I remember TV commercials and Public Service Announcements saying that using aerosol spray cans was creating a hole in this thing called the Ozone layer. More specifically, Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) emitted by spray cans, refrigerators and air conditioning. None of us had any idea …
Kilimanjaro
I wanted to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro for the life experience like skydiving or going up in a hot air balloon. Climbing mountains seems to be such an innate part of our humanity and I needed one that was accessible to a complete amateur. I knew if I just kept putting one foot in front of …
Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles (EV) are not new, they have been around much longer than Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles. The first ones appeared around 1828 to 1840 in Europe. Now 180 years later they are still not economically viable solutions and there’s a reason why: physics. The energy density, cost, weight, and size of onboard energy …
A Healthy Lifestyle
Habits as a Lifestyle A habit is just something that you do on a regular basis without thinking about it, it’s something that has become a part of your life through repetition, it becomes a part of who you are. Your lifestyle is just a collection of habits, good and bad. What, when and how …
God and Country
It starts at home as soon as we are aware of our existence and before we ever step foot into a public institution. As early as 3 or 4-years-old we see people flying flags in their yards, veterans at Waffle House wearing their military ballcaps. We see police cars, sheriff’s deputies, state troopers, military vehicles …
Password Automation and Declination
Introduction Password policies are becoming more and more complicated all the time. Most policies nowadays require at least 8 characters both upper and lower case letters, at least one number and a special character. Some organizations can require up to 16 characters. The policy also requires that the password be changed on a regular basis …