This blog is the kind of prime example of negative material that makes old fashioned people resent the invention of the Internet for putting bad thoughts in the empty minds of children, but when boneheaded kids learn how to Instagram duck face selfies before they are taught to tie their shoelaces, I think the world is fucked enough that my online contributions are insignificant in making it a worse place.

I started writing this blog about 4 months ago to keep my mind sharp and also because I was briefly in between jobs, but today with 30 posts and visitors from 40 countries and over 10,000 hits I never expected that kind of readership when I started this project. Thanks. Have all my non-robotic, sentient-being love for your precious views, comments, and links.

People ask, "what do you trade?"

It reminds me of an answer we would derisively tell ......