Category Archives: Freedom

A Time To Innovate, A Time to Not

Posted on January 11, 2014 by joegergen

Urban Gorilla Program. That’s what I thought the headline read at the Como Zoo web site. How my brain managed to add the “Urban” part I don’t know. But the damage was done and could not be undone. My first … Continue reading →

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One Lamp to Rule Them All

Posted on January 8, 2014 by joegergen

What possessed you to make an Eye of Sauron lamp? That was a question someone asked when I showed them the finished product. I loved that question. Partially because it had no detectable mockery of my nerdery, but mostly because … Continue reading →

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A Minimalist Among Us

Posted on December 28, 2013 by joegergen

I have never liked getting gifts. It all started with the seemingly benign birthday party. Extremely introverted and shy, the thought of people staring at me as I opened a present was horrifying.  I would go through the motions and … Continue reading →

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Next Generation: Where the Message and the Medium Become One

Posted on December 27, 2013 by joegergen

One generation spends a fortune on medication and counseling to combat attention deficit disorder. The next generation spends a fortune on technology to enhance the condition. Perhaps it was inevitable in a world obsessed by multitasking. In a world that … Continue reading →

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The Emperor’s New Food

Posted on December 24, 2013 by joegergen

  Imaginary Chicken Broth. Brilliant. Imaginary chicken broth, i.e. vegetarian broth, is fun, catchy word play. Good angle by the vegetarian crowd. At least that’s what I thought the label said, whereas in fact it actually was chicken broth, the brand … Continue reading →

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A Dream Well Narrated

Posted on December 17, 2013 by joegergen

Someone narrated my dream last night. It was not me. I might have suspected Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones, the prefect narrators. But it was not. The narrator, instead, was from a book I am reading by Andrei Bely, … Continue reading →

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Five Easy Steps to Awesomeness

Posted on December 16, 2013 by joegergen

Just kidding. There’s no five easy steps to awesomeness. In fact there are probably not five easy steps to anything you want. Yet as I stumble around the Internet I see article after article on five steps to something desirable.  … Continue reading →

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The Dreaded Butter Loop

Posted on December 11, 2013 by joegergen

  I’m an awful shopper. I often have to be forced to shop for even the most bare essentials. When I do shop, I can only shop for a little while. I am usually drained when I’m done. For the … Continue reading →

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Romantic Reanimation

Posted on December 10, 2013 by joegergen

Whether I was born a romantic is hard to say. I am pretty sure I knew this by the time I was five. How I knew I could not say since the word “romantic” had surely not entered my vocabulary … Continue reading →

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Just One Little Thing

Posted on December 8, 2013 by joegergen

  It was awful. The character’s accent. It was so bad it ruined the whole movie. To be fair, I know accents are not easy. Especially in English language movies whose characters would not be actually speaking English. But the … Continue reading →

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