The Column

Motto: What a Marvelous Continuation Preface: Nearly 4 years ago, I wrote  this long post about the Marvel Cinematic Universe  (as it existed then). In that post, I made several predictions, which may or may not have come true, and several statements, which  now I may or may not disagree with. Since then, a lot has happened. The MCU has expanded.  Another guy named Aaron and I made a  Spreadsheet . I made a video you'll see later. Everyone has become familiar with the shared-universe concept. Thor: Ragnarok just came out. Last time I wrote this it was after the release of the previous Thor movie. It seems like a good time to go back to the well. This is my update to that post. A Brief History of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: The MCU is a series of movies, shows, web series, and comic books produced by Marvel Studios that exist in the same shared universe, each telling their own story while contributing to a greater, overarching narrative. Specifica...

Motto: Discipline Beats Motivation Lately I have had trouble doing new Aaron things. The ideas haven't gone. It's the follow through. I sought to remedy this situation by nixing passive entertainment from my life in October. That worked until it didn't.  I set goals, do a great job with them at first, but after a bit I'm back to baseline Aaron. The goal is present, but the change in behavior is not. Comfort is the problem. Control is the answer. Captain America. ...or maybe that's just what I think. I wonder if it I could play a Clair De Lune on the piano in a month? I wonder what it would be like to stop drinking caffeine & alcohol entirely? I wonder what it's like to eat an IIFYM diet? I wonder if I could make my own shirt from a sheet of fabric? I wonder if I could design and construct my own pergola? I wonder what I should do to continue my education? I wonder if I could have an Android app in the Play Store before the end of the year?...

Motto: Some Handsome Hand I don't like this post. You should skip it. I'm not saying this to intrigue you into reading further. This Column was supposed to be  about  something. Then it turned into me writing about me writing, which I'm exacerbating by talking about it right now.  SKIP IT. SKIP IT. BOP IT. TWIST IT. SKIP IT. SKIP IT. SNAKE PIT. SKIP IT. SKIP IT. I really liked my previous post. It's in my top 5. It actually is. Thanks to the way I started this Column, I just read through dozens of my old posts. Sometimes I make myself laugh. Other times I make myself cringe. I wonder if and when I'll stop writing like I know better than people. Maybe that's the nature of writing your current opinions on the things you're currently thinking about. I didn't continue writing after that. Here I am a few days later, I went back even further into the archive Column. All the way back to #150. It's a little disheartening seeing stuff I wro...

Motto: Round and Round We Go Routine. Imagine life without it. It would be chaos. Everyone has routines they go through every day. You do the same things in the same ways. Try putting your pants on starting with your off-leg and you'll see what I mean. It feels weird.  We have little routines. We have big ones. Our big routines are made up of little ones.  Butting routines together forms a loop. These loops exist at different levels, too. You loop your mornings, your afternoons, your evenings. You loop your days. You loop your weeks. On a long enough timeline, your months and years take on similar characteristics.  You wake up. You prep for work. You commute. You manage tasks and email until lunch. You eat. You manage tasks and email until it's time to leave. You commute. You do a hobby. You cook food. You eat. You entertain yourself. You sleep. Loop. You work. You work. You work. You work. You work. You engage in social activities. You gather and orga...

 

Motto: I Forgot to Remember Last time I wrote about stuff I had been putting on the back burner for a while. I forgot this stuff. SCIENCE AND HUMANITY AND STUFF I wonder if we will ever reach a point where we fully understand how the human body works. Will we ever know what each little synapse in the brain is doing when it fires off. Will that discovery be succeeded by a discovery allowing us to shape the brain after birth to correct defects in the brain and body? Will we learn how to turn off the dopamine hits that are associated with damaging things? Would we be able to reprogram the brain to really and truly enjoy  doing stuff that is beneficial to the individual, humanity, and the world? Will we be able to link together in a way that is more meaningful than the means achievable through conversation. Can we abstract consciousness away from the human body? Could we ship that consciousness throughout the universe on miniature space probes? Will we discover a way of living th...

Motto: DC, KC, ABQ, and stuff Part of the reason I don't write "Features" all that much anymore is that they take me a LONG time, and they push out other things I'd normally write about. I have an MCU update coming sometime. Also, I've just been too busy for Aaron Projects. I'm writing this after retroactively filling out two full weeks of "Life Tracker" data. You might wonder "How good is that data if he's filling it out after two weeks?". The answer is: not much. I basically just look at my photo reel and try to piece together what I did each day. Thankfully I take a video every day, so I can at least remember one bit, usually. Alright - here's some stuff I wrote down to write on here... FIXING SPORTS Basketball: - Two 10 minute halves - Each team gets two 30 second time outs (per game) - Shot clock is 30 seconds - Fouls NEVER give an advantage to the fouling team - More clearly defined rules for blocking/charging f...