Recently I've been writing diversity statements for college applications, as well as reading a few from either prospective applicants into Law Programs or classmates of mine. With my applications, it's sort of a weird experience. There's typical one listing for summer interns, then a little further down on the page, there's another listing for what … Continue reading One of These Things is not Like the Others →

In the past few month's I've taken an interest in street photography. While I'm certainly not very good at all, it's been a great experience and a wonderful opportunity to learn. I've enjoyed going on photo walks even if I end up not getting anything worth keeping at all. Part of me seeing this as … Continue reading Small, Dark, and Dim →

The work of the Netherlandish Renaissance painter Jheronimus bosch is considered to be some of the most imaginative and enigmatic work known to mankind. Part of this comes from his creations which are a unique blend of human, animal, and machine, which is not seen in the works of other artists known to create monsters … Continue reading Bosch, Revisited →

The online anonymous image board 4chan gets a lot of negative attention, a lot which is deserved. However, as a community of people, very few people honestly believe the things they espouse. The go-to explanation of their behavior given by people such as the board's founder, Moot (Christopher Poole), in his TED talk is that … Continue reading Based People Poster →

My sister and her husband recently moved to Northern Virginia, and I was deployed to go help them. Between the moving and assembling, runs to home depot, and boba places, I recorded a few snips of audio, which have been thrown together somewhat haphazardly.     Now you're probably wondering why I'm uploading it as … Continue reading Despots, Unicorns, and the KALLAX →

My Uncle suffered a stroke in October of 2016. My father told me over the phone, and quickly flew back to Taiwan to see him. He went back to see him a few times over the next few years, but it was not until October of 2018 that I finally had a chance to fly … Continue reading The Octobers →

I've generally tried keeping controversial material off of my blog, largely because I don't believe this is a proper place for it. In this post I'll attempt an exploration of political correctness, but I see no reason why that trend should break. Perspectives I now present are not aimed at establishing a bias for or … Continue reading Political Correctness →

Stretching out with garbled yawn Rising, slumping back to bed The smell of another day and dawn Inside the kettle’s steamy head   Thought clouds, smokey and opaque Drift upwards from the hissing throat Collide with ceiling, smoosh, remake Wandering, swirling, playing, float   Evening light casts woolen shaddows Stretch like cats across the walls … Continue reading Frowst →

While reading a book of jokes by Slavoj Žižek, I came across a reference he makes to Eurydice. I believe in the book, he spells it “Euridice”, which is part of why it caught my eye. Not having gone through a classical phase since my boyish ones in elementary school, I decided to do a … Continue reading Eurydice’s Game →

Our kids are screwed. They're going to be doped up on ADHD meds because schools will have eliminated all forms of art or phys ed, have terrible posture from hunching over glowing screens of whatever size we end up having, paltry immune systems and allergies because of our systemic elimination from any kind of dirt … Continue reading Dystopian Rant →