Category: Misc

  • You and I: Food for Thought

    It’s 11:11 am on 6-10-14 as I start writing this. I’m at my desk, it’s rainy and cool out, I keep going to the window to check on my customers, my birds who congregate and party all day long at my feeder, and my two old dogs are sound asleep on the floor in my…

  • Don’t Worry Be Happy

    I was 7 or 8 years old when I first heard Bobby McFerrin’s song “Don’t Worry Be Happy”. I lived in Miami, FL at the time and was in the back seat of the car on a family trip down to Marco Island for the weekend. I had the song playing on my Walkman, and was…

  • Cheap Humor to Make Your Day a Bit Better

    This is the best cheap humor that has accumulated in my phone over the last year or so. If you receive the Sunday Newsletter, you’ve seen a few of them, but most of them are new. Hopefully they make your Monday, or whatever day you’re reading this, a little better.    

  • A Spectrum of Matter? Food for Thought

    What if there’s a spectrum of matter just like the electromagnetic spectrum? The visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is but a tiny slice of the entire thing, which I discussed here. Maybe the visible portion of a possible spectrum of matter is just a tiny sliver of the full spectrum. Just like we cannot…

  • What Is “dingtwist”?

    Some of you have been wondering where I got the name for the site. “dingtwist” is a strange word you haven’t heard before. When I was a kid, maybe 11 or 12 years old, I was hanging out with some neighborhood friends and we got in a small argument. My friend Richard became frustrated and…

  • The Best Way to Read a Book

    A problem I used to have after reading books, especially useful non-fiction, was that I’d pretty much forget all of the information soon after finishing it. That is, until I devised (drumroll) the best way to read a book. 1. Dog ear particularly insightful, useful, or beautiful (fiction) passages by bringing the line of the dog…

  • How I Want My Wake to Go

    How I Want My Wake to Go

    I’ve been to a few wakes over the last couple of years, and I always cringe inside because I know I would never want such a thing for myself. We all know wakes are not for the dead, but for the living. They’re a way we can gain closure in our minds and pay our…

  • 2014

    2014

    Happy New Year! That is, if you’re on Eastern Standard Time. This post went live on the internet at exactly 12:00 am EST, January 1, 2014. So although you didn’t know it at the time, I was actually the very first person to wish you a Happy New Year in the year 2014, to the…

  • The Limitations of Science

    The Limitations of Science

    Science cannot prove that something does not exist, only that something exists. People seem to forget that. Since our technology has progressed so incredibly to where it is today, we like to think we know it all. We have cars that can drive themselves. GPS, the internet, voice-activated everything. We’ve figured it out! We know…

  • Do You Smoke?

    Do You Smoke?

    I’ve been busy all week with tying up the last few odds and ends with my first business website, which finally went live yesterday. I swear you have no idea about all of the little details involved in setting up a website until you actually do it. This website is pretty simple. When I have something to…