An Inside Look at My Family’s Annual Thanksgiving Talent Show, 2009 Version
Posted in theatre with tags disappearing box, magic, trick on December 14, 2009 by Jason TyneQuote of the Week: “Ruining my life was the best thing I ever did.”
Posted in Love with tags blindness, death, desire, samsara on December 7, 2009 by Jason TyneWhen I went away to grad school, I had made plans with a certain theater in the city that when I returned I would live in the crawl space above the stage rent free in exchange for directing shows for them for free.
Things That Have Been on My Mind in November in a Word Cloud…
Posted in Blogs about Blogging with tags just, one, proving, think, wrong on December 1, 2009 by Jason TyneEverything I know is wrong…except that last statement.
Posted in Politics, Religion, Science with tags cancer, heliocentrism, higgs boson on November 30, 2009 by Jason Tyne
Try it today.
Think of something you believe and consider, “What if I’m wrong about it?”
You might not think you are…but think of what an exciting breakthrough you could have if you were!
Working at CUNY, you’ve got to be careful of making typos.
Posted in New York Life with tags CUNY, City University of New York on November 23, 2009 by Jason TyneThe y and the t are far too close to each other on the keyboard for a company called CUNY.
My Opinion on Climate Change, Part Two: Who Can You Believe?
Posted in Politics with tags Global Cooling, Global Warming on November 16, 2009 by Jason TyneI’m a skeptic. If you tell me something without irrefutable proof, I’ll doubt it. The planet is really getting warmer? Really? Not that I’ve noticed…see this guy over here says the planet is actually getting cooler. That sounds doubtful to me as well. I guess one of them could be true, but is it worth betting on either side? They sound pretty far fetched to me.
I mean, I’m not a scientist. I’ve never read any of the reports “validating” climate change or “refuting” climate change, and even if I had I probably wouldn’t understand it. Without any understandable evidence, how do I decide how to act?
Pascal suggests a wager when arguing the existence of God. Even though it cannot be proved through reason, Pascal says that people should live as though God exists. A person living as though God exists he has everything to gain and nothing to lose. If he’s wrong, no harm done: he winks out of existence; if he’s right, he’s in like Flynn. The man living as if there is no God puts you with nothing to gain and everything to lose. If he’s right he’ll wink out of existence just like the pious man; but if he’s wrong he will find himself faced with a very angry God.
In the same way, it makes sense to act as if our planet was in crisis. Living this way gives us everything to gain and nothing to lose. If you preserve the earth and find that the crisis was true, you’ve just saved humanity; if you find that there was no crisis, you’ve still got the planet and it’s in better shape than when you started averting the crisis that never would have happened. If you live as if there is no crisis and find that the crisis never comes, no real harm done…except the cosmetic damage done to the earth. On the other hand if you find that there is a crisis, you’ve just destroyed the hope of mankind’s survival.
Seriously. If the fatalists are to be believed, what is possibly at stake is the survival of humanity; how much would be too much to do to possibly save the future of our species on this planet?
What harm could come from heeding the warnings?
What harm could come from ignoring the warnings?
I’m not a scientist, so I won’t tell you that there is a global crisis, but it seems to me it’s worth believing in…
Finally Got a Haircut and Reached the Epitome of Attractiveness (For Me)!
Posted in New York Life with tags sexiness, comliness, attractiveness on November 9, 2009 by Jason Tyne“Just a trim…nothing fancy.”
For the sake of my niece and my wife, the age of Mohawks is over.
“How do you comb it? Just forward like that?”
This is my gay hairdresser speaking.
“Yeah, I guess. I don’t want to spend too much time on it in the morning.”
This is me realizing that perhaps I should be a bit more metrosexual.
“…but look. If you comb it back, like this…”
He sprays down my hair and slicks it back.
“…you will look almost sexy.”
I laugh.
“No just simple is fine.”
Then as I’m sitting in the chair, my thoughts stray.
“Did he say, ‘almost sexy’? Really? That’s the best I can possibly do? The best haircut he can suggest is one that makes me almost sexy? Is actually sexy really the best I can be in this world?
As if he can read my mind he keeps playing with my hair.
“Yes, you look almost sexy now.”
>sigh<
Halloween pictures: mission accomplished
Posted in New York Life with tags House, Halloween, Differential Diagnosis on November 2, 2009 by Jason TyneThere’s the “official” pictures that were downloaded onto the computer just before it went into the shop. Until we get it back, here’s the pictures that we took on Halloween proper.
This year’s costume wasn’t quite as esoteric as last year’s Suede and Stella, but it still took people took varying amounts of clues to figure it out.
Anyone that figured it out just from the cane got five points.
(I was going to paint the cane, but figured that doing it in PhotoShop and gluing flames on would look better.)
If I caught anyone eying me as if they were trying to place me, I’d bring out the Vicodin bottle and pop a pill.
If they got it at that point, they’d get four points.
(Thanks to Lil Sis for the prop.)
If they still looked perplexed, I’d take out the dry erase marker and write a symptom on my white board (aka Peeps).
Two points for guessing it at this stage.
(Notice what she’s holding.)
Last clue was she and I playing catch with the BOUO.
(Bonus points if you called it the “Ball of Unknown Origin”.)
One point if you guessed “House” at that point, two points if you guessed “Drug Addict Doctor” (which someone actually did), because really if you know who House is you should have gotten it several clues ago.
Pictures as soon as I can!
Wordcloud for October: Things I’ve Been Talking about this Month
Posted in Blogs about Blogging with tags bike, cards, neighborhood, player on November 1, 2009 by Jason Tyne
My Opinion on Climate Change, Part One: Putting the Cart before the Horse
Posted in Politics with tags Apple Trees, Climate Change on October 26, 2009 by Jason TyneAlthough we were plentiful in cherry tomatoes this year, I really wished we had apples.
A wise man said to me, “Do you know when the best time to plant an apple tree is?”
“I guess ten years ago would have been nice.”
“Correct.” He paused. “Do you know when the second best time to plant an apple tree is?”
I shrugged, disappointed in my lack of foresight.
He said “Right now” with a comforting smile.






