R.I.P. MY10AE4216 9/25/99 – 11/22/08

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

After dragging their feet for 3 months, the state of California finally issued me a salvage title for my car.  And as of an hour ago when I signed over that title to the salvage yard, “my10AE4216″ is now just a Mazda Miata 10th Anniversary Edition, #4216.  Nobody ever understood how much that car meant [...]

Sleep Deprivation

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Can a person actually die from sleep deprivation?  I’m not referring to the ‘only getting 2-3 hours a night’ variety.  I already know from my own experience that variety can be sustained indefinitely.  I’m asking if there is an actual threshold in existence—any reputable research that can offer the total number of hours or days [...]

I Am Jack’s Grandiose Sentence Structure

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

I’ve spent the past couple of weeks hypomanic, and the flight of ideas that I’ve experienced have been above all else intensely gratifying.  Note that I described the experience of having them as providing gratification.  The ideas themselves have ranged from brilliant to nonsensical, and their speed reached a new high last night that compelled [...]