Freeways, corporate efficiency experts, optical fibre internet, rapid transit, executive MBAs, electric bikes, fast food, instant fashion, and bullet trains. Everything, it seems, is moving at a velocity that’s difficult for the human soul to bear. A friend of mine listens to all audiobooks at 1.5x or 2x speed, so that it sounds like the… Read more »
The Good Tracks are Amazing While Others Need to be Sent Back Through The Green Door for Further Work Artist: The Discarded Album: The Green Door The Discarded’s most recent album, The Green Door, is currently streaming on all platforms after its release on November 25th, 2024. Originating from Orangeville, Ontario, in Canada, The Discarded… Read more »
A loved one wants me to pay over $20,000 worth of debt. But who wants to spend the next 10 to 40 years grinding down debt? Not me! Although it’s necessary, I can’t get excited about paying off debt. But what excites me is paying down $5,000 in debt while planning the dream holiday: four… Read more »
As we all found out last week when a person not long out of high school decided to climb a shed and take a few pot-shots at the US ex-President, the hazards of mentally disturbed people “going postal” are perpetually with us. And we ought to not be too politically correct to say so. Instead,… Read more »
Welcome to the final issue of The Voice Magazine for 2024. It’s been an interesting year so far, and looks like it’ll be ending that way as well, as yesterday I had to take one of our kitties in for a massive surgery—all the mammary glands on both sides removed due to a malignant tumor. … Read more »
Reddit: Is there a 60% exam pass rate? A student asks if the exams all require a 60% pass grade. Other students say that most courses require a 50% or 60% pass grade. Another student indicates that ADHD makes it challenging to write exams, although AU accessibility allows for extra time, breaks, snacks, and moving… Read more »
Being a big foodie means that even in a one week trip to Japan, I got the opportunity to try some fairly adventurous dishes, from yakiniku made with beef innards to octopus balls. Whenever I travel, I travel to taste the local cuisine and food has always been a highlight. I can never stop talking… Read more »
I have never snared a rabbit in the woods, eyed a 12-point buck down the barrel of a rifle, or blown a passing waterfowl out of the sky with a 12-gauge shotgun. Which doesn’t mean I don’t sometimes have the desire to do so. It is only natural that humans have a primal inclination to… Read more »
I see things in the physical world I used to take for granted. Not only does the physical world move in weird ways when we move, but I’ve also noticed that objects jump and shift non-contiguously. This strange shift may be because our thoughts jump us into a parallel universe, complete, possibly, with aspects of… Read more »
