Tag: Chaos

A monkey, a bucket, and a crash test dummy walk into a bar. No, this isn’t the start of a peculiar joke, but rather an intriguing exploration of a principle that’s revolutionizing the world of software engineering. What could these three possibly have in common? Let’s find out. ...

I had a student once who was desperate for a job and couldn’t get one. ( Not unlike me at the moment) He tried doing door to door sales and door after door was slammed in his face. He got the idea to buy those doors, “No solicitors, please,” and took these back to the doors that we...

The Dishonored series depicts the aristocratic stratum of a feudal society going through industrialization. It is occupied with time and inevitability in a sense that Jameson refers to as a “prodigious anticipations of the thought mode of a social formation of the future” in “The P...

Initially built as a Chinese military fort, it quickly became a foundation for a rapidly expanding urban settlement. Except for Kowloon Walled-City, the rest of Hong-Kong’s territories were leased to Britain in 1898 and the enclave became isolated and hard to govern for China. W...

For those of you living in Taipei you already know the disparity of sidewalks from building to building, tune out your surroundings and your destine for pain. While walking and avoiding obstacles there is another over looked piece of architecture that protects you from the elements and houses a uniq...

Matsubara thought about this for a long time, almost paralyzed with doubt. Two years later, he began painting a maelstrom of raging flames and wild beasts, recalling Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. The work — actually 12 separate paintings, joined to form a kind of traditional Japanese sc...

One of the main themes of Christmas is peace. So, why is the three weeks leading up to Christmas the most chaotic time of year? Also, why is the week after Christmas one of the more peaceful weeks of the year? According to the internet, the top four most used words in Christmas songs are Chris...

It is a new year and an in-between. We could all be kinder and healthier and more honest with ourselves, and so we promise to improve and leave harmful behaviour behind us. When we have strayed too far into pain or feel that our lives have lost meaning, we look for a way through the obstacles tha...

First things first, what is chaos magick? For the sake of brevity, chaos magick is a practice that rejects traditional and ritual practices for simpler results-based procedures. It is all about utilizing the things that are helpful in the moment — regardless if they oppose things that have bee...

In the bustling city of Louisville, Kentucky, the morning of September 21, 2023, took an unexpected turn when a fiery crash involving two semi trucks brought traffic on I-64 West to a grinding halt. This unfortunate incident occurred just before the I-265 ramp around 9 a.m., leaving commuters a...

Traffic incidents can happen when we least expect them, disrupting our daily routines and causing frustration for commuters. One such incident occurred recently in Jacksonville, Florida, where a semi-truck flipped over and spilled fuel on Interstate 295 near Wilson Boulevard, leading to signifi...

It really bothers me that I am a therapist, mature (by age, I mean), and write frequently about mental health issues and how to avoid the traps — and I STILL fall into them myself regularly! Grrrrrr. Photo by Victor Furtuna on Unsplash If you have read my Seven De...