The modern Kwai River Bridge spans the Kwai Yai River, people crossing when trains aren’t. For more time and space spanning pictures from Thailand, click here. My father used to take regular trips to Hawaii for business when I was a child. A couple times each year, my mother and I would accompany him, lounging [...] Read more »
The monkeys of the Grand Palace, complete in their modern excuse for modesty. For more historically reinvented pictures of Thailand, click here. The monkeys stood stalwart, a rainbow of emotion carved onto their faces—happy, sad, scared, excited—their hands stiffly holding the golden spire they surrounded. their bodies glistened in the afternoon sun, the gaudy stage [...] Read more »
Salvador Dali’s “Persistence of Memory” ‘”You remember that time,” I said, a smile creasing my face, “we got lost in Denver looking for that show. We were in your minivan and we spent hours just cruising back and forth, not really worrying about it since we hadn’t bought tickets anyway.” She smiled and laughed a [...] Read more »
Keeping a Positive Outlook with Tragic Expectations It seems as if the divide between pessimists and optimists is becoming more stark and defined by the minute. Either the glass is half empty or half full. There is no other acceptable answer. I often refer to myself as a pessimist. I don’t expect much from other [...] Read more »
Something has been lost in the MMORPG designs of today. I’m not sure it’s something that can be recaptured, but perhaps it bears examination. A Brief History of Role Playing Games RPGs have been around for eons. Perhaps not in the very organized dice rolling, stats accumulating form of today’s generation of RPGs, but in [...] Read more »
The other day, I saw wholesomedick post about the ways he’s stagnated developmentally over the past few years and began thinking about my own philosophical development. I’m certain that I’ve changed in some ways and not in others, but I’ve had the same basic morality for a long time. Therefore, I’ve decided to put together [...] Read more »