Vikar’s Rant

I am certain that electric eye door openers were a byproduct of this show, as well as video conferencing, as well as cell phones, and even floppy disks. Do you know that medical science now has a hand held magnetic imager similar to a tricorder? Watch the old series and see how many of the “futuristic tools” they used are now commonly used today in the year 2001. I get goosepimply just thinking about it. [...]

“What was that middle part again?”
- Otto (Kevin Klein) from A Fish Called Wanda

“You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy?”
- Title of the adult attention deficit disorder self help book by Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo

“What happens when the brain’s capacity to process information is exceeded? It shuts down.”
- From ‘You Mean I’m Not [...]

Plus, here’s another bonus - YOU JUST GOT RID OF CRAP THAT YOU WERE NEVER GOING TO USE ANYWAY!!! You have just created new space that you can put other stuff in that won’t be cluttering up your house. And, if you do it well enough, come moving time, that’s less you have [...]

On the upside to all of this, I discovered something I thought I had lost. It was a very subliminal thing both with myself and with the people I had to deal with. It was a mental switch that had been turned on. I discovered that very much like an actor playing a role, I was now in costume and started to play my role. This is the role of business professional. Unlike when I dress business casual, I started to take my work and my life more seriously. What’s more, I think, from the way I was acting, people were starting to take me more [...]

There are times you’ll find yourself talking to a friend and you’ll come up with a concept so absurd and insane that you can’t help but be amazed that you arrived at that topic to begin with. For example, just the other day, I had a conversation with my wife that made me doubt my own [...]

A child will perform an action if it brings good or positive stimulus. Pain or negative stimuli are usually avoided. In essence, they develop a human operating system based upon what their environment dictates. In the early years of childhood development, parents provide the environment and program the child with a system of beliefs and societal norms – like not letting the child pick his or her nose in public or running around stores naked. These beliefs form a rudimentary system of right and wrong and a percentage of that translates out to a specific religion or [...]

To be blunt, I don’t like the sport. My brothers-in-law and my father are football fans. I think the entire sport is a waste of time and keeps humanity from evolving into its ultimate destiny of being the big headed Talosian superbeings that have insanely powerful mental [...]