Robot and Stevil

The Customer Isn’t Always Bright. Expectations are the enemy of happiness, which is why the Amazonification of customer service has ruined a lot of people.…

White Whales and Sinking Ships. All of life is a struggle between our best intentions and the predations of time. Will we land our great white whale before the…

Bill and Ted’s Hot Tub Time Machine. In 1968, when Dr. Spock invented the internet, it was just a cool way for people to share information with each other.…

New Year’s Icebreakers for the Dull or Demented. From a party perspective New Year’s is really amateur hour, hordes of emotionally chaotic humans getting…

The Warm Breeze Off Jugalo Island. We live 3000 miles apart, but we’re neighbors on Jugalo Island, a special place where two fifty-something jabronis can have…

Bad Reasons to Talk About Batman. Batman is clearly the best superhero because he doesn’t have any superpowers and because he isn’t even sure whether he’s a…

Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again. We’re just a couple of cracked eggs, and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men apparently need to be involved…

The Last Will and Testament of Stevil Kinevil. By the time people are hearing this, I’ll either be in the great beyond where all the guitars are air guitars…

Trying Very Hard Not to Try Very Hard. After 153 hours of jibber-jabber, I think we’ve established that nothing matters, and that quite possibly we’re all dead…

The Epistemological Challenges of 21st Century Consciousness. One of the problems of being alive right now is that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to know…