Month: October 2018
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Why a Happy Halloween?
Here’s something I haven’t written about in a while but still do all the time: programming. I decided to take a simple in-class exercise to build a memory game with React and turn it into an actual app I could add to my portfolio that doesn’t look, well, let’s just say it wasn’t a front-end…
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Why am I glad I left the United States?
“Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.” -William S Burroughs, great American writer who used his status to have sex with much younger men but that’s not what we’re here to talk about right now, ok? One of the many good things about living outside of…
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Why Costa Rica?
I have never prepared less for an international trip than this one. I’ve done more research to go out of state than I did for Costa Rica. The idea I had in my mind was that Costa Rica is a country whose economy is built on tourism so it must be an insular experience built…
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Why injury onset depression? (part two)
I was told I might have extensive nerve damage but I recovered fine. [Don’t know what I’m talking about? Check out part one] My surgeon was every ambitious bro I had ever met in college. Blond and drunk on self-confidence, in his office he surrounded himself with all the prestigious awards he had won to…