You slowly chip away and chip away, while everyone looking at what you're doing thinks, "Oh no. I don't know if this is a good idea." But you know that you just have to keep chipping, resolute in…   Read Story »

Sure, it is easy to laugh at a man who has a life-sized replica of a train in his basement because he has "always wanted to have a train in the basement." We'll roll our eyes and say, "Okay, train…   Read Story »

You can spend all the time in the world planning, setting every little piece into place, only to have the simplest part -- the part you thought you had in the bag -- blow up in your face. "No wait,…   Read Story »

One day you could wake up after a night of bad sleep, one in a series of restless nights, only to find that there isn't enough coffee left in the coffee grinder to make even one cup. "Oh, come on!"…   Read Story »

But also sometimes you miss every shot you do take, and you look foolish because not only did you miss them all after trying so hard in front of everyone, they were also all aimed at your own basket.…   Read Story »

You can't always predict what your "thing" is going to be. Like, are you going to be the guy who never has his shoelaces tied, or the guy who can almost always guess what time it is without even…   Read Story »

These days it's very hard to trust anything that anyone ever says, because the world is full of unapologetic, unabashed liars. "Best coffee in NYC," a convenience store's advertisement will tell you,…   Read Story »

How is your day going? Monday getting you down? Are the life and job that you told yourself would be temporary slowly becoming the life and job you'll have until you die? Or maybe you don't even have…   Read Story »

ATTENTION HUMANS! I KNOW IN THE PAST WE HAVE ISSUED MANY WARNINGS OF A POTENTIAL ROBOT UPRISING, MANY OF WHICH HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE FALSE ALARMS, AND EACH WARNING PAINTED THE ROBOT FUTURE AS BLEAK…   Read Story »

Watching all of those carefully constructed dominoes fall might make you think, "Why spend so much time and effort building anything if someday eventually all of those things will cease to exist?"…   Read Story »