New York City Easter Eggs Hiding in Plain Sight ^ My most genuinely untethered self can be found seated at a bar dripping in authentic American history An unavoidable dark side of human nature is that we often become so accustomed to our environment that we start to hyper focus on our routine and mainstays, in turn blurring out the noise, … [Read more...]
This Month’s Google Deep Dive
The Real Stories Behind Our Most Cherished Fairy Tales ^ When you finally get your fairy tale ending but it's the German Version At some point during college, most people take a class that has no relation to their major, is on a fairly straight forward subject, and offers the opportunity to grab a low effort high grade to balance out getting … [Read more...]
What’s Rick Lawton Been up to?
Falling Asleep in Any Chair With Even the Slightest Recline Dads typically love websites that want you to accept all of their cookies, are a landmine of links that bring you perilously close to the edge of the dark web, and are an echo chamber of countless people's misinformation that collectively forms the strength of an off-shore hurricane, of … [Read more...]
Human Things We’ll Inevitably Have to Explain to the Aliens, Alphabetically
A - Astrological signs and how they're used to justify character flaws and put a bandaid on our personal demons B - Burning Man, which I would love to have explained to me as well C - Crypto and why it took so long for people to realize it was just one big pyramid scheme D - Why Dogs and men from … [Read more...]
Your Healthy Dose of New York History
And Just Like that...we're Back in the Chaos of the 1800s ^ if you think New York in July smells foul now, just imagine horses everywhere, zero hygiene, so much wool... Reflecting back in time is disorienting because while 2003 feels like it couldn't have been more than 10 years ago, somehow two decades have slipped by. Conversely, the … [Read more...]
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