Ten-dollars worth of nihilism

As I battle the unholy combination of impulsively long writing and too much content in the form of video game mechanics and aesthetics for my first Gaming in American Culture paper, it's about time for a break. Because my 4-6 page restriction has long since been surpassed by a 10-page first draft, and I'm electing …

Schrödinger’s @

This little premise is probably something that could be served better as a brief question on Twitter, but I figured I would pose a more elaborate version on the off-chance I get interesting responses beyond the shelf life of a tweet. It's undeniable that the language of social media has injected itself into our common …

A ten-dollar word worth its weight in gold

Once in a while I like to take a break from delving into a video game or bothering you all about my life and talk about another one of my favorite things: The written word. Unfortunately, this isn't really an update on my Senior Honors Project. I have been working on that a bit recently, …

The Benefits to being a Hoarder

They called me crazy. "Why would you keep all of your old binders," they said. "You should just throw out/burn all that old stuff," they said. "When are you ever going to use your high school notes ever again," they said. Well who's laughing now viewing audience who I'm imagining chastises me for my corner …

Temporal Contiguity

I'm trying something totally radical today. Instead of writing this post after my trip to the gym, I'm writing it while currently at the gym! Using the treadmill, to be specific. About 10 minutes into my run and I'm already beginning to suspect this whole split mindset is a mistake. But overall I'm very interested …

Jason’s Ten-Dollar Word of the Day

I spent a lot of the day today doing work, copy editing for a number of different people mostly. While I could go on about why that made me late for getting this post out into the world, that would be boring. Plus anyone reading this after tonight probably wouldn't care in the first place. …

March 14, 2017 Article Published

Happy pi day everybody!  As somebody who had one of the punniest math teachers ever for Precalculus/Trigonometry in high school (thank you for the silly turtle drawing that will never let me forget what a sinusoidal line is, Mr. Baumgartner), I feel like this is the kind of fake holiday I can get behind. However, …